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Data cleaning in Pandas

In the real world, data is messy and incomplete. That’s why it’s so important to know how to clean your data. In this class, I introduce a number of techniques you can use to turn bad data into better, cleaner data.

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Course Content

Course length

2 hours

Number of lessons

1

Training materials

1 Jupyter notebook

Coding exercises

3

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The world is a messy place, and a lot of the data we have to deal with is messy, too. That’s why cleaning our data is so crucial; data scientists report they spend 80 percent (!) of their time on this task. In this webinar, we’ll review techniques for cleaning your data, making it easier to query, manipulate, and work with.

  • Why clean data?
  • Setting dtypes
  • Selecting columns
  • Removing NaN values
  • Replacing NaN values
  • Interpolation
  • Replacing values

This course, like all others on LernerPython.com, is taught by Reuven Lerner.