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Data Wrangling with Python

You're reading from   Data Wrangling with Python Creating actionable data from raw sources

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789800111
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shubhadeep Roychowdhury Shubhadeep Roychowdhury
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Data Wrangling with Python
Preface
1. Introduction to Data Wrangling with Python FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Data Structures and File Handling 3. Introduction to NumPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib 4. A Deep Dive into Data Wrangling with Python 5. Getting Comfortable with Different Kinds of Data Sources 6. Learning the Hidden Secrets of Data Wrangling 7. Advanced Web Scraping and Data Gathering 8. RDBMS and SQL 9. Application of Data Wrangling in Real Life Appendix

The Basics of Web Scraping and the Beautiful Soup Library


In today's connected world, one of the most valued and widely used skill for a data wrangling professional is the ability to extract and read data from web pages and databases hosted on the web. Most organizations host data on the cloud (public or private), and the majority of web microservices these days provide some kind of API for the external users to access data:

Figure 7.1: Data wrangling HTTP request and an XML/JSON reply

It is necessary that, as a data wrangling engineer, you know about the structure of web pages and Python libraries so that you are able to extract data from a web page. The World Wide Web is an ever-growing, ever-changing universe, in which different data exchange protocols and formats are used. A few of these are widely used and have become standard.

Libraries in Python

Python comes equipped with built-in modules, such as urllib 3, which that can place HTTP requests over the internet and receive data from the...

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