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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
    Working with an Interactive Shell

    <p>Learn how to work with IPython, an enhanced Python interactive shell.</p>

    24 min
  • 02
    Piping and Redirecting Output

    Learn how to pipe and redirect output on the command line.

    21 min
  • 03
    Working with Programs

    Learn how to work with programs from the command line.

    21 min
  • 04
    Command Line Python Scripting

    Learn how to work with Python scripts from the command line.

    30 min
  • 05
    Challenge: Working with the Command Line

    Practice creating and running a Python script from the command line.

    13 min
  • 06
    Challenge: Data Munging Using The Command Line

    Practice using the command line to munge datasets.

    15 min
  • 07
    Data Cleaning and Exploration Using Csvkit

    Learn how to use the csvkit command line library to explore and clean CSV datasets.

    27 min

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