Chapter materials
The materials for this chapter can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/stefmolin/Hands-On-Data-Analysis-with-Pandas-2nd-edition/tree/master/ch_03. There are five notebooks that we will work through, each numbered according to when they will be used, and two directories, data/ and exercises/, which contain all the CSV files necessary for the aforementioned notebooks and end-of-chapter exercises, respectively. The following files are in the data/ directory:
Figure 3.1 – Breakdown of the datasets used in this chapter
We will begin in the 1-wide_vs_long.ipynb notebook by discussing wide versus long format data. Then, we will collect daily temperature data from the NCEI API, which can be found at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices/v2, in the 2-using_the_weather_api.ipynb notebook. The documentation for the Global Historical Climatology Network – Daily (GHCND) dataset we will be using can be found at https://www1.ncdc...
