Advanced Data Wrangling

Course

Data wrangling is a set of processes for turning raw and messy data into a clean format to answer interesting questions from the data. In this course, you will learn the three phases of data wrangling: gathering, assessing, and cleaning data.

Intermediate

3 weeks

Real-world Projects

Completion Certificate

Last Updated May 21, 2024

Skills you'll learn:

Data cleaning • Data storage • Data Tidiness Assessment • Data gathering

Prerequisites:

Basic Python • Basic descriptive statistics • Pandas

Course Lessons

Lesson 1

Introduction to Data Wrangling

You will learn what data wrangling is and why it matters. And you will see a real-world example of data wrangling and some common misconceptions about data wrangling.

Lesson 2

Gathering Data

You will learn to implement data gathering methods to obtain and extract data from various sources and in several popular data formats.

Lesson 3

Assessing Data

You will learn to identify different data quality and structural issues and apply visual and programmatic assessments to catch them.

Lesson 4

Cleaning Data

You will learn to remediate the issues you identified in the assessment stage and test that your data cleaning is successful.

Lesson 5 • Project

Real World Data Wrangling with Python

You will apply the skills you acquired in the course by gathering, assessing, and cleaning multiple real-world datasets of your choice.

Taught By The Best

Ria Cheruvu

AI Software Architect

Ria is an AI Software Architect and technical lead at Intel. She has a master's in data science from Harvard University, and is an accomplished industry speaker and instructor. She formerly served as Intel NEX’s AI Ethics Lead Architect, leading trustworthy AI product creation, and as a Teaching Fellow for Harvard Data Science. Ria has multiple patents and publications on AI and ethics, and enjoys contributing to open-source communities to advance innovation.

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