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Practical Data Analysis Using Jupyter Notebook

You're reading from   Practical Data Analysis Using Jupyter Notebook Learn how to speak the language of data by extracting useful and actionable insights using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838826031
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marc Wintjen Marc Wintjen
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Data Analysis Essentials
2. Fundamentals of Data Analysis FREE CHAPTER 3. Overview of Python and Installing Jupyter Notebook 4. Getting Started with NumPy 5. Creating Your First pandas DataFrame 6. Gathering and Loading Data in Python 7. Section 2: Solutions for Data Discovery
8. Visualizing and Working with Time Series Data 9. Exploring, Cleaning, Refining, and Blending Datasets 10. Understanding Joins, Relationships, and Aggregates 11. Plotting, Visualization, and Storytelling 12. Section 3: Working with Unstructured Big Data
13. Exploring Text Data and Unstructured Data 14. Practical Sentiment Analysis 15. Bringing It All Together 16. Works Cited
17. Other Books You May Enjoy
Exploring, Cleaning, Refining, and Blending Datasets

In the previous chapter, we learned about the power of data visualizations, and the importance of having good-quality, consistent data defined with dimensions and measures.

Now that we understand why that's important, we are going to focus on the how throughout this chapter by working hands-on with data. Most of the examples provided so far included data that was already prepped (prepared) ahead of time for easier consumption. We are now switching gears by learning the skills that are necessary to be comfortable working with data to increase your data literacy.

A key concept of this chapter is cleaning, filtering, and refining data. In many cases, the reason why you need to perform these actions is the source data does not provide high-quality analytics as is. Throughout my career, high-quality data is not the norm and data gaps are common. As good data...

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