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Python Data Cleaning Cookbook

Python Data Cleaning Cookbook: Prepare your data for analysis with pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, scikit-learn, and OpenAI , Second Edition

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Python Data Cleaning Cookbook

Anticipating Data Cleaning Issues When Working with HTML, JSON, and Spark Data

This chapter continues our work on importing data from a variety of sources and the initial checks we should do on the data after importing it. Over the last 25 years, data analysts have found that they increasingly need to work with data in non-tabular, semi-structured forms. Sometimes, they even create and persist data in those forms. We will work with a common alternative to traditional tabular datasets in this chapter, JSON, but the general concepts can be extended to XML and NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB. We will also go over common issues that occur when scraping data from websites.

Data analysts have also been finding that increases in the volume of data to be analyzed have been even greater than improvements in machine processing power, at least those computing resources that are available locally. Working with big data sometimes requires us to rely on technology like Apache Spark, which...

Technical requirements

You will need pandas, NumPy, and Matplotlib to complete the recipes in this chapter. I used pandas 2.1.4, but the code will run on pandas 1.5.3 or later.

The code in this chapter can be downloaded from the book’s GitHub repository, https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Python-Data-Cleaning-Cookbook-Second-Edition.

Importing simple JSON data

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) has turned out to be an incredibly useful standard for transferring data from one machine, process, or node to another. Often, a client sends a data request to a server, upon which that server queries the data in local storage and then converts it from something like an SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL table or tables into JSON, which the client can consume. This is sometimes complicated further by the first server (say, a web server) forwarding the request to a database server. JSON facilitates this, as does XML, by doing the following:

  • Being readable by humans
  • Being consumable by most client devices
  • Not being limited in structure

JSON is quite flexible, which means that it can accommodate just about anything, no matter how unwise. The structure can even change within a JSON file, so different keys might be present at different points. For example, the file might begin with some explanatory...

Importing more complicated JSON data from an API

In the previous recipe, we discussed one significant advantage (and challenge) of working with JSON data – its flexibility. A JSON file can have just about any structure its authors can imagine. This often means that this data does not have the tabular structure of the data sources we have discussed so far and that pandas DataFrames have. Often, analysts and application developers use JSON precisely because it does not insist on a tabular structure. I know I do!

Retrieving data from multiple tables often requires us to do a one-to-many merge. Saving that data to one table or file means duplicating data on the “one” side of the one-to-many relationship. For example, student demographic data is merged with data on the courses studied, and the demographic data is repeated for each course. With JSON, duplication is not required to capture these items of data in one file. We can have data on the courses studied nested...

Importing data from web pages

We use Beautiful Soup in this recipe to scrape data from a web page and load that data into pandas. Web scraping is very useful when there is data on a website that is updated regularly but there is no API. We can rerun our code to generate new data whenever the page is updated.

Unfortunately, the web scrapers we build can be broken when the structure of the targeted page changes. That is less likely to happen with APIs because they are designed for data exchange and carefully curated with that end in mind. The priority for most web designers is the quality of the display of information, not the reliability and ease of data exchange. This causes data cleaning challenges that are unique to web scraping, including HTML elements that house the data in surprising and changing locations, formatting tags that obfuscate the underlying data, and explanatory text that aid data interpretation being difficult to retrieve. In addition to these challenges, scraping...

Working with Spark data

When working with large datasets, we sometimes need to rely on distributed resources to clean and manipulate our data. With Apache Spark, analysts can take advantage of the combined processing power of many machines. We will use PySpark, a Python API for working with Spark, in this recipe. We will also go over how to use PySpark tools to take a first look at our data, select parts of our data, and generate some simple summary statistics.

Getting ready

To run the code in this section, you need to get Spark running on your computer. If you have installed Anaconda, you can follow these steps to work with Spark:

  1. Install Java with conda install openjdk.
  2. Install PySpark with conda install pyspark or conda install -c conda forge pyspark.
  3. Install findspark with conda install -c conda-forge findspark.

    Note

    Installation of PySpark can be tricky, particularly setting the necessary environment variables. While findspark...

Persisting JSON data

There are several reasons why we might want to serialize a JSON file:

  • We may have retrieved the data with an API but need to keep a snapshot of the data.
  • The data in the JSON file is relatively static and informs our data cleaning and analysis over multiple phases of a project.
  • We might decide that the flexibility of a schema-less format such as JSON helps us solve many data cleaning and analysis problems.

It is worth highlighting this last reason to use JSON – that it can solve many data problems. Although tabular data structures clearly have many benefits, particularly for operational data, they are often not the best way to store data for analysis purposes. In preparing data for analysis, a substantial amount of time is spent either merging data from different tables or dealing with data redundancy when working with flat files. Not only are these processes time-consuming but every merge or reshaping leaves the door open...

Versioning data

There may be times when we want to persist data without overwriting a prior version of the data file. This can be accomplished by appending a time stamp to a filename or a unique identifier. However, there are more elegant solutions available. One such solution is the Delta Lake library, which we will explore in this recipe.

We will work with the land temperature data again in this recipe. We will load the data, save it to a data lake, and then save an altered version to the same data lake.

Getting ready

We will be using the Delta Lake library in this recipe, which can be installed with pip install deltalake. We will also need the os library so that we can make a directory for the data lake.

How to do it...

You can get started with the data and version it as follows:

  1. We start by importing the Delta Lake library. We also create a folder called temps_lake for our data versions:
    import pandas as pd
    from deltalake.writer import write_deltalake...

Summary

The recipes in this chapter examined importing and data preparation of non-tabular data in a variety of forms, including JSON and HTML. We introduced Spark for working with big data and discussed how to persist tabular and non-tabular data. We also examined how to create a data lake for versioning. We will learn how to take the measure of our data in the next chapter.

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  • Get to grips with new techniques for data preprocessing and cleaning for machine learning and NLP models
  • Use new and updated AI tools and techniques for data cleaning tasks
  • Clean, monitor, and validate large data volumes to diagnose problems using cutting-edge methodologies including Machine learning and AI

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Jumping into data analysis without proper data cleaning will certainly lead to incorrect results. The Python Data Cleaning Cookbook - Second Edition will show you tools and techniques for cleaning and handling data with Python for better outcomes. Fully updated to the latest version of Python and all relevant tools, this book will teach you how to manipulate and clean data to get it into a useful form. he current edition focuses on advanced techniques like machine learning and AI-specific approaches and tools for data cleaning along with the conventional ones. The book also delves into tips and techniques to process and clean data for ML, AI, and NLP models. You will learn how to filter and summarize data to gain insights and better understand what makes sense and what does not, along with discovering how to operate on data to address the issues you've identified. Next, you’ll cover recipes for using supervised learning and Naive Bayes analysis to identify unexpected values and classification errors and generate visualizations for exploratory data analysis (EDA) to identify unexpected values. Finally, you’ll build functions and classes that you can reuse without modification when you have new data. By the end of this Data Cleaning book, you'll know how to clean data and diagnose problems within it.

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This book is for anyone looking for ways to handle messy, duplicate, and poor data using different Python tools and techniques. The book takes a recipe-based approach to help you to learn how to clean and manage data with practical examples. Working knowledge of Python programming is all you need to get the most out of the book.

What you will learn

  • Using OpenAI tools for various data cleaning tasks
  • Producing summaries of the attributes of datasets, columns, and rows
  • Anticipating data-cleaning issues when importing tabular data into pandas
  • Applying validation techniques for imported tabular data
  • Improving your productivity in pandas by using method chaining
  • Recognizing and resolving common issues like dates and IDs
  • Setting up indexes to streamline data issue identification
  • Using data cleaning to prepare your data for ML and AI models
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13 Chapters
Anticipating Data Cleaning Issues When Importing Tabular Data with pandas Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Anticipating Data Cleaning Issues When Working with HTML, JSON, and Spark Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Taking the Measure of Your Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Identifying Outliers in Subsets of Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using Visualizations for the Identification of Unexpected Values Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Cleaning and Exploring Data with Series Operations Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Identifying and Fixing Missing Values Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Encoding, Transforming, and Scaling Features Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Fixing Messy Data When Aggregating Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Addressing Data Issues When Combining DataFrames Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Tidying and Reshaping Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Automate Data Cleaning with User-Defined Functions, Classes, and Pipelines Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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  1. If you ordered (eBook, Video or Print Book) incorrectly or accidentally, please contact Customer Relations Team on customercare@packt.com within one hour of placing the order and we will replace/refund you the item cost.
  2. Sadly, if your eBook or Video file is faulty or a fault occurs during the eBook or Video being made available to you, i.e. during download then you should contact Customer Relations Team within 14 days of purchase on customercare@packt.com who will be able to resolve this issue for you.
  3. You will have a choice of replacement or refund of the problem items.(damaged, defective or incorrect)
  4. Once Customer Care Team confirms that you will be refunded, you should receive the refund within 10 to 12 working days.
  5. If you are only requesting a refund of one book from a multiple order, then we will refund you the appropriate single item.
  6. Where the items were shipped under a free shipping offer, there will be no shipping costs to refund.

On the off chance your printed book arrives damaged, with book material defect, contact our Customer Relation Team on customercare@packt.com within 14 days of receipt of the book with appropriate evidence of damage and we will work with you to secure a replacement copy, if necessary. Please note that each printed book you order from us is individually made by Packt's professional book-printing partner which is on a print-on-demand basis.

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Currently, no tax is charged on the purchase of any print book (subject to change based on the laws and regulations). A localized VAT fee is charged only to our European and UK customers on eBooks, Video and subscriptions that they buy. GST is charged to Indian customers for eBooks and video purchases.

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You can pay with the following card types:

  1. Visa Debit
  2. Visa Credit
  3. MasterCard
  4. PayPal
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Shipping Details

USA:

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Economy: Delivery to most addresses in the US within 10-15 business days

Premium: Trackable Delivery to most addresses in the US within 3-8 business days

UK:

Economy: Delivery to most addresses in the U.K. within 7-9 business days.
Shipments are not trackable

Premium: Trackable delivery to most addresses in the U.K. within 3-4 business days!
Add one extra business day for deliveries to Northern Ireland and Scottish Highlands and islands

EU:

Premium: Trackable delivery to most EU destinations within 4-9 business days.

Australia:

Economy: Can deliver to P. O. Boxes and private residences.
Trackable service with delivery to addresses in Australia only.
Delivery time ranges from 7-9 business days for VIC and 8-10 business days for Interstate metro
Delivery time is up to 15 business days for remote areas of WA, NT & QLD.

Premium: Delivery to addresses in Australia only
Trackable delivery to most P. O. Boxes and private residences in Australia within 4-5 days based on the distance to a destination following dispatch.

India:

Premium: Delivery to most Indian addresses within 5-6 business days

Rest of the World:

Premium: Countries in the American continent: Trackable delivery to most countries within 4-7 business days

Asia:

Premium: Delivery to most Asian addresses within 5-9 business days

Disclaimer:
All orders received before 5 PM U.K time would start printing from the next business day. So the estimated delivery times start from the next day as well. Orders received after 5 PM U.K time (in our internal systems) on a business day or anytime on the weekend will begin printing the second to next business day. For example, an order placed at 11 AM today will begin printing tomorrow, whereas an order placed at 9 PM tonight will begin printing the day after tomorrow.


Unfortunately, due to several restrictions, we are unable to ship to the following countries:

  1. Afghanistan
  2. American Samoa
  3. Belarus
  4. Brunei Darussalam
  5. Central African Republic
  6. The Democratic Republic of Congo
  7. Eritrea
  8. Guinea-bissau
  9. Iran
  10. Lebanon
  11. Libiya Arab Jamahriya
  12. Somalia
  13. Sudan
  14. Russian Federation
  15. Syrian Arab Republic
  16. Ukraine
  17. Venezuela