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Intermediate Command Line for Data Science
In this course, you'll learn how to use intermediate command line skills and integrate them into your data analysis workflow.
- Intermediate friendly
- 3 hrs
- 7 lessons
- Premium
Course overview
Strengthen your data analysis workflow with intermediate command line skills like piping, redirection, and transforming data directly from the shell.
What's inside
7 lessons
- 01 24 minWorking with an Interactive Shell
<p>Learn how to work with IPython, an enhanced Python interactive shell.</p>
- 02 21 minPiping and Redirecting Output
Learn how to pipe and redirect output on the command line.
- 03 21 minWorking with Programs
Learn how to work with programs from the command line.
- 04 30 minCommand Line Python Scripting
Learn how to work with Python scripts from the command line.
- 05 13 minChallenge: Working with the Command Line
Practice creating and running a Python script from the command line.
- 06 15 minChallenge: Data Munging Using The Command Line
Practice using the command line to munge datasets.
- 07 27 minData Cleaning and Exploration Using Csvkit
Learn how to use the csvkit command line library to explore and clean CSV datasets.
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