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Python Data Cleaning and Preparation Best Practices

You're reading from   Python Data Cleaning and Preparation Best Practices A practical guide to organizing and handling data from various sources and formats using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837634743
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Maria Zervou Maria Zervou
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Upstream Data Ingestion and Cleaning
2. Chapter 1: Data Ingestion Techniques FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Importance of Data Quality 4. Chapter 3: Data Profiling – Understanding Data Structure, Quality, and Distribution 5. Chapter 4: Cleaning Messy Data and Data Manipulation 6. Chapter 5: Data Transformation – Merging and Concatenating 7. Chapter 6: Data Grouping, Aggregation, Filtering, and Applying Functions 8. Chapter 7: Data Sinks 9. Part 2: Downstream Data Cleaning – Consuming Structured Data
10. Chapter 8: Detecting and Handling Missing Values and Outliers 11. Chapter 9: Normalization and Standardization 12. Chapter 10: Handling Categorical Features 13. Chapter 11: Consuming Time Series Data 14. Part 3: Downstream Data Cleaning – Consuming Unstructured Data
15. Chapter 12: Text Preprocessing in the Era of LLMs 16. Chapter 13: Image and Audio Preprocessing with LLMs 17. Index 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Detecting and Handling Missing Values and Outliers

This chapter discusses the techniques of handling missing values and outliers, two critical challenges that can significantly impact the integrity and accuracy of our data products. We will explore a wide range of techniques to identify and manage these data irregularities, ranging from statistical methods to advanced machine learning models. Through practical examples and real-world datasets, we will present strategies to tackle these issues head-on, ensuring that our analyses are robust, reliable, and capable of generating meaningful insights.

The key points for the chapter are as follows:

  • Detecting and handling missing data
  • Detecting univariate and multivariate outliers
  • Handling univariate and multivariate outliers
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