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Data Processing with Python

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Overview

Learn how to use Python and Pandas for cleaning and reorganizing huge amounts of data.

What you'll learn:

  • Build 10 advanced Python scripts which together make up a data analysis and visualization program.
  • Solve six exercises related to processing, analyzing and visualizing US income data with Python.
  • Learn the fundamental blocks of the Python programming language such as variables, datatypes, loops, conditionals, functions and more.
  • Use Python to batch download files from FTP sites, extract, rename and store remote files locally.
  • Import data into Python for analysis and visualization from various sources such as CSV and delimited TXT files.
  • Keep the data organized inside Python in easily manageable pandas dataframes.
  • Merge large datasets taken from various data file formats.
  • Create pivot tables in Python out of large datasets.
  • Perform various operations among data columns and rows.
  • Query data from Python pandas dataframes.
  • Export data from Python into various formats such as TXT, CSV, Excel, HTML and more.
  • Use Python to perform various visualizations such as time series, plots, heatmaps, and more.
  • Create KML Google Earth files out of CSV files.

 

Data scientists spend only 20 percent of their time on building machine learning algorithms and 80 percent of their time finding, cleaning, and reorganizing huge amounts of data. That mostly happen because many use graphical tools such as Excel to process their data. However, if you use a programming language such as Python you can drastically reduce the time it takes for processing your data and make them ready for use in your project. This course will show how Python can be used to manage, clean, and organize huge amounts of data.

This course assumes you have basic knowledge of variables, functions, for loops, and conditionals. In the course you will be given access to a million records of raw historical weather data and you will use Python in every single step to deal with that dataset. That includes learning how to use Python to batch download and extract the data files, load thousands of files in Python via pandas, cleaning the data, concatenating and joining data from different sources, converting between fields, aggregating, conditioning, and many more data processing operations. On top of that, you will also learn how to calculate statistics and visualize the final data. The course also covers a series of exercises where you will be given some sample data then practice what you learned by cleaning and reorganizing those data using Python.

Taught by

Ardit Sulce

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