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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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Challenge yourself with exercises

Challenge yourself with exercises

Work with real data from day one with interactive lessons and hands-on exercises.

Showcase your path certification

Showcase your path certification

Impress employers by completing a capstone project and certifying it with an expert review.

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