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Course overview
In this course, you’ll expand your Python for data engineering knowledge. Using real-world data from the Museum of Modern Art, you’ ll learn how to prepare text data, introduce uniformity into a messy dataset, and more. You’ll also explore object-oriented programming (OOP) and how it powers Python. Finally, you’ll learn new and exciting Python coding concepts for data engineering.
Best of all, you’ll learn by doing — you’ll practice and get feedback directly in the browser.
Key skills
- Cleaning, manipulating, and exploring data
- Using object-oriented programming, classes, and instances
- Processing dates and times in Python
Course outline
Intermediate Python for Data Engineering [4 lessons]
Cleaning and Preparing Data in Python 2h
Lesson Objectives- Prepare text data in Python
- Employ basic data cleaning
- Resolve errors during data cleaning
Object-Oriented Python 2h
Lesson Objectives- Define a set in Python
- Define object-oriented programming
- Identify key concepts like classes, instances, attributes, and methods
- Create a class
Working with Dates and Times in Python 2h
Lesson Objectives- Parse dates from strings using the datetime library
- Analyze dates and times
- Format dates using strftime
Guided Project: Exploring Hacker News Posts 2h
Lesson Objectives- Explore data CSV data using loops
- Clean data using string methods
- Process dates in python
Projects in this course
Exploring Hacker News Posts
For this project, we’ll step into the role of data analysts to explore Hacker News submissions, analyzing trends using skills in string manipulation, object-oriented programming, and date handling in Python.
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