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Intermediate Python for Data Engineering

In this course, you’ll learn critical Python theory and key concepts for basic analysis, cleaning, and manipulation of data.

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Part of the Data Engineer path.

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Beginner friendly
6 hours
Self paced
4 lessons
1 project

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Intermediate Python for Data Engineering

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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 1h

Lesson Objectives

Explore data CSV data using loops
Clean data using string methods
Process dates in python

Projects in this course

Guided Project: Exploring Hacker News Posts

Practice using loops, cleaning strings, and working with dates in python.

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