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How to Clean Data with Python

Learn the basics of regular expressions and how to pull and clean data from the web with Python.

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    Intermediate
  • Time to complete

    3 hours
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  • Prerequisites

    1 course

About this course

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.

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Frequently asked questions about How to Clean Data with Python

  • Raw data is messy and hard to analyze, so we have to “clean” it by filling in missing values, correcting mistakes and improper formatting, fitting it into the right rows and columns, and other methods you’ll learn in this course.

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