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Matt Harrison is an author, speaker, corporate trainer, and consultant. He authored the popular Learning the Pandas Library and Illustrated Guide to Python 3. He runs MetaSnake, which provides corporate and online training on Python and Data Science. In addition, he offers consulting services. He has worked on search engines, configuration management, storage, BI, predictive modeling, and in a variety of domains.
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Data dictionaries

A crucial part of data analysis involves creating and maintaining a data dictionary. A data dictionary is a table of metadata and notes on each column of data. One of the primary purposes of a data dictionary is to explain the meaning of the column names. The college dataset uses a lot of abbreviations that are likely to be unfamiliar to an analyst who is inspecting it for the first time.

A data dictionary for the college dataset is provided in the following college_data_dictionary.csv file:

>>> pd.read_csv("data/college_data_dictionary.csv")
    column_name  description
0        INSTNM  Institut...
1          CITY  City Loc...
2        STABBR  State Ab...
3          HBCU  Historic...
4       MENONLY  0/1 Men ...
..          ...          ...
22      PCTPELL  Percent ...
23     PCTFLOAN  Percent ...
24      UG25ABV  Percent ...
25  MD_EARN_...  Median E...
26  GRAD_DEB...  Median d...

As you can see, it is immensely helpful in deciphering...

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Matt Harrison is an author, speaker, corporate trainer, and consultant. He authored the popular Learning the Pandas Library and Illustrated Guide to Python 3. He runs MetaSnake, which provides corporate and online training on Python and Data Science. In addition, he offers consulting services. He has worked on search engines, configuration management, storage, BI, predictive modeling, and in a variety of domains.
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