From the course: A Day In The Life of a Data Scientist
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Python and pandas tools
From the course: A Day In The Life of a Data Scientist
Python and pandas tools
- As a data scientist there are a lot of options for different tools you can use along various steps of your work. For writing code and cleaning data sets I like to use Python and I like to use the Pandas Library specifically. Python is a really great language to learn because it's applicable to a lot of different types of work. You can use it to clean data, you can use it to write programs, it's a really versatile language that is used frequently across multiple types of organizations and different types of data sets. So it's a really great tool to have in your toolkit because it's such a versatile coding language. Cleaning data is taking a data set that may have missing values, that may have inconsistencies in the formats of data, so for example all lower case letters in a text or string or a mixture of lower case and upper case letters that you would want to make sure is uniform across the entire data set. These…
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