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Data Engineering with Python

By : Paul Crickard
Book Image

Data Engineering with Python

By: Paul Crickard

Overview of this book

Data engineering provides the foundation for data science and analytics, and forms an important part of all businesses. This book will help you to explore various tools and methods that are used for understanding the data engineering process using Python. The book will show you how to tackle challenges commonly faced in different aspects of data engineering. You’ll start with an introduction to the basics of data engineering, along with the technologies and frameworks required to build data pipelines to work with large datasets. You’ll learn how to transform and clean data and perform analytics to get the most out of your data. As you advance, you'll discover how to work with big data of varying complexity and production databases, and build data pipelines. Using real-world examples, you’ll build architectures on which you’ll learn how to deploy data pipelines. By the end of this Python book, you’ll have gained a clear understanding of data modeling techniques, and will be able to confidently build data engineering pipelines for tracking data, running quality checks, and making necessary changes in production.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: Building Data Pipelines – Extract Transform, and Load
8
Section 2:Deploying Data Pipelines in Production
14
Section 3:Beyond Batch – Building Real-Time Data Pipelines

Handling common data issues using pandas

Your data may feel special, it is unique, you have created the world's best systems for collecting it, and you have done everything you can to ensure it is clean and accurate. Congratulations! But your data will almost certainly have some problems, and these problems are not special, or unique, and are probably a result of your systems or data entry. The e-scooter dataset is collected using GPS with little to no human input, yet there are end locations that are missing. How is it possible that a scooter was rented, ridden, and stopped, yet the data doesn't know where it stopped? Seems strange, yet here we are. In this section, you will learn how to deal with common data problems using the e-scooter dataset.

Drop rows and columns

Before you modify any fields in your data, you should first decide whether you are going to use all the fields. Looking at the e-scooter data, there is a field named region_id. This field is a code used...