How to Clean Data with Python
Offered By: Codecademy
Course Description
Overview
Pull and clean data from the web with this Python based course.
### Why Learn How to Clean Data with Python?
People say that data scientists spend 80% of their time cleaning data and only 20% of their time doing analysis. Learn some of the most common techniques for getting your data ready to analyze. Along the way, you'll learn the basics of Regex, a fun and powerful tool to find patterns in strings.
### Take-Away Skills:
Data Cleaning, Regular Expressions
### Note on Prerequisites:
Basic Python, Functions, Introductory Pandas
### Why Learn How to Clean Data with Python?
People say that data scientists spend 80% of their time cleaning data and only 20% of their time doing analysis. Learn some of the most common techniques for getting your data ready to analyze. Along the way, you'll learn the basics of Regex, a fun and powerful tool to find patterns in strings.
### Take-Away Skills:
Data Cleaning, Regular Expressions
### Note on Prerequisites:
Basic Python, Functions, Introductory Pandas
Syllabus
- How to Clean Data with Python: Some say data scientists spend 80% of their time cleaning data and 20% of their time doing analysis. Learn how to do this 80% in Python!
- Lesson: Introduction to Regular Expressions
- Quiz: Introduction to Regular Expressions
- Lesson: How to Clean Data with Python
- Quiz: Data Cleaning in Python
- Project: Cleaning US Census Data
Taught by
Nitya Mandyam
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