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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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Dr. Tirthajyoti Sarkar Dr. Tirthajyoti Sarkar
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

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

Summary


In this chapter, we went through several important concepts and learning modules related to advanced data gathering and web scraping. We started by reading data from web pages using two of the most popular Python libraries – requests and BeautifulSoup. In this task, we utilized the previous chapter's knowledge about the general structure of HTML pages and their interaction with Python code. We extracted meaningful data from the Wikipedia home page during this process.

Then, we learned how to read data from XML and JSON files, two of the most widely used data streaming/exchange formats on the web. For the XML part, we showed you how to traverse the tree-structure data string efficiently to extract key information. For the JSON part, we mixed it with reading data from the web using an API (Application Program Interface). The API we consumed was RESTful, which is one of the major standards in Web API.

At the end of this chapter, we went through a detailed exercise of using regex techniques...

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