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Advanced Data Cleaning in Python

Data scientists spend over 60% of their time cleaning and preparing data for analysis. While it’s not the most exciting part of the job, data cleaning is undoubtedly one of the most important skills you need. In this advanced data cleaning course, you’ll learn complex data cleaning techniques that will help you to stand from the crowd as a data analyst or data scientist.

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Part of the Data Analyst in Python, and Data Scientist paths.

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Intermediate friendly
9 hours
Self paced
4 lessons

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Advanced Data Cleaning in Python

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Course overview

This course builds on basic data cleaning knowledge and requires intermediate familiarity with Python for data science. You’ll learn how to clean and manipulate text data using basic and advanced regular expressions, how to resolve missing data, and how to employ lambda functions and list comprehension with pandas. Best of all, you’ll learn by doing — you’ll practice and get feedback directly in the browser.

Key skills

Cleaning and manipulating text data using regular expressions
Resolving missing data and duplicate data
Employing lambda functions and list comprehension with pandas
Advanced techniques for data cleaning

Course outline

Advanced Data Cleaning in Python [4 lessons]

Regular Expression Basics 2h

Lesson Objectives

Employ regular expressions
Define regex components like character classes and quantifiers
Employ regular expressions with the 're' module and pandas

Advanced Regular Expressions 3h

Lesson Objectives

Clean data by substituting regular expression matches
Employ lookarounds to include and exclude text before and after your regex match
Extract new columns from text data using capture groups

List Comprehensions and Lambda Functions 2h

Lesson Objectives

Read and employ JSON files
Create and transform lists using List Comprehensions
Create and employ lambda functions

Working with Missing Data 2h

Lesson Objectives

Identify missing data using both code and visualizations
Resolve missing data using imputation
Fill missing values using external data

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