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Data Acquisition and Manipulation with Python [Video]

By : Curtis Miller
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Data Acquisition and Manipulation with Python [Video]

By: Curtis Miller

Overview of this book

Python, a multi-paradigm programming language, has become the language of choice for data scientists for data analysis, visualization, and machine learning. In this course, you’ll start by learning how to acquire data from the web in its already “clean” format, such as in a .csv file, or a database. You’ll then learn to transform this data so it’s in its most useful format for analysis. After that, you’ll dive into data aggregation and grouping, where you’ll learn to group similar data for easier analysis purposes. From there, you’ll be shown different methods of web scraping using Python. Finally, you’ll learn to extract large amounts of data using BeautifulSoup, as well as work with Selenium and Scrapy.
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 2
Data Wrangling
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Section 2
Reshaping Data
Datasets may not come in appropriate formats or shape. Here, this video demonstrate how to manipulate a dataset’s shape, altering what is represented in rows and what is in columns. - Load in the dataset into a Pandas DataFrame - Determine what data should be included in rows and columns - Use DataFrame methods and Pandas functions to achieve this shape