Megan Squire is a professor of computing sciences at Elon University. She has been collecting and cleaning dirty data for two decades. She is also the leader of FLOSSmole.org, a research project to collect data and analyze it in order to learn how free, libre, and open source software is made.
Clean Data
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Overview of this book
<p>Is much of your time spent doing tedious tasks such as cleaning dirty data, accounting for lost data, and preparing data to be used by others? If so, then having the right tools makes a critical difference, and will be a great investment as you grow your data science expertise.</p>
<p>The book starts by highlighting the importance of data cleaning in data science, and will show you how to reap rewards from reforming your cleaning process. Next, you will cement your knowledge of the basic concepts that the rest of the book relies on: file formats, data types, and character encodings. You will also learn how to extract and clean data stored in RDBMS, web files, and PDF documents, through practical examples.</p>
<p>At the end of the book, you will be given a chance to tackle a couple of real-world projects.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Clean Data
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Why Do You Need Clean Data?
Fundamentals – Formats, Types, and Encodings
Workhorses of Clean Data – Spreadsheets and Text Editors
Speaking the Lingua Franca – Data Conversions
Collecting and Cleaning Data from the Web
Cleaning Data in PDF Files
RDBMS Cleaning Techniques
Best Practices for Sharing Your Clean Data
Stack Overflow Project
Twitter Project
Index
Customer Reviews