The "Data Processing and Manipulation" course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of various data processing and manipulation concepts and tools. Participants will learn how to handle missing values, detect outliers, perform sampling and dimension reduction, apply scaling and discretization techniques, and explore data cube and pivot table operations. This course equips students with essential skills for efficiently preparing and transforming data for analysis and decision-making.
Data Processing and Manipulation
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Data Processing and Manipulation
This course is part of Data Wrangling with Python Specialization
Instructor: Di Wu
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Intermediate level
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28 hours to complete
3 weeks at 9 hours a week
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What you'll learn
Understand the importance of data processing and manipulation in the data analysis pipeline.
Learn techniques to handle missing values and outliers, data reduction, and data scaling and discretization.
Understand the concept of data cube and perform multidimensional aggregation for exploratory analysis.
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Taught in English
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There are 4 modules in this course
The "Missing Values and Outliers" week focuses on how to handle missing values and detect outliers using the Pandas library. You will learn essential techniques to identify and address missing data effectively, as well as methods to detect and manage outliers in datasets.
What's included
3 videos5 readings2 assignments1 discussion prompt
The "Data Reduction" week focuses on how to reduce data through sampling and dimensionality reduction using the Pandas library. You will learn essential techniques to obtain manageable subsets of data while preserving meaningful information for analysis and visualization.
What's included
2 videos3 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt
The "Scaling and Discretization" week focuses on the importance of data scaling and discretization in the data preprocessing process. You will learn why and how to perform data scaling to normalize variables and handle data with different scales. Additionally, you will explore the concept of data discretization and its application in transforming continuous data into categorical representations.
What's included
2 videos3 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt
The "Data Warehouse" week focuses on the concepts and methodologies of organizing data using data cubes and pivot tables in Pandas. You will learn the importance of data warehousing for efficient data management and analysis, as well as how to construct data cubes and pivot tables to facilitate multidimensional data exploration.
What's included
2 videos3 readings2 assignments1 discussion prompt
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