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The Data Wrangling Workshop - Second Edition
The Data Wrangling Workshop - Second Edition

The Data Wrangling Workshop: Create your own actionable insights using data from multiple raw sources, Second Edition

By Brian Lipp , Shubhadeep Roychowdhury , Dr. Tirthajyoti Sarkar
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The Data Wrangling Workshop - Second Edition

2. Advanced Operations on Built-In Data Structures

Overview

This chapter will introduce advanced data operations on built-in data structures. You can utilize these data structures to solve data-wrangling problems. After reading this chapter, you will be able to compare Python's advanced data structures and make use of the Operating System (OS) file-handling operations. This chapter focuses on the data structures in Python and the OS functions that are the foundation of this book. By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to handle advanced data structures.

Introduction

We were introduced to the basic concepts of different fundamental data structures in the previous chapter. We learned about lists, sets, dictionaries, tuples, and strings. However, what we have covered so far were only basic operations on those data structures. They have much more to offer once you learn how to utilize them effectively. In this chapter, we will venture further into the land of data structures. We will learn about advanced operations and manipulations and use fundamental data structures to represent more complex and higher-level data structures; this is often handy while wrangling data in real life. These higher-level topics will include stacks, queues, interiors, and file operations.

In this chapter, we will also learn how to open a file using built-in Python methods and about the many different file operations, such as reading and writing data, and safely closing files once we are done. We will also take a look at some of the problems to avoid while...

Advanced Data Structures

We will start this chapter by discussing advanced data structures. Initially, we will be revisiting lists. Then, we will construct a stack and a queue, explore multiple-element membership checking to check whether the data is accurate, and throw a bit of functional programming in for good measure. Don't worry if all of this sounds intimidating. We will take things step by step, and you will feel confident about handling advanced data structures once you have finished this chapter.

Before we jump into constructing data structures, we'll look at a few methods to manipulate them.

Iterator

Iterators in Python are very useful when dealing with data as they allow you to parse the data one unit at a time. Iterators are stateful, which means it will be helpful to keep track of the previous state. An iterator is an object that implements the next method—meaning an iterator can iterate over collections such as lists, tuples, dictionaries,...

Basic File Operations in Python

In the previous topic, we investigated a few advanced data structures and also learned neat and useful functional programming methods to manipulate them without side effects. In this topic, we will learn about a few OS-level functions in Python, such as working with files, but these could also include working with printers, and even the internet. We will concentrate mainly on file-related functions and learn how to open a file, read the data line by line or all at once, and finally, how to cleanly close the file we opened. The closing operation of a file should be done cautiously, which is ignored most of the time by developers. When handling file operations, we often run into very strange and hard-to-track-down bugs because a process opened a file and did not close it properly. We will apply a few of the techniques we have learned about to a file that we will read to practice our data wrangling skills further.

Exercise 2.08: File Operations

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Summary

This chapter covered manipulation techniques of advanced data structures such as stacks and queues. We then focused on different methods of functional programming, including iterators, and combined lists and functions together. Later, we looked at OS-level functions and the management of environment variables. We examined how, using Python, we can open, close, and even write to local files in a variety of ways. Knowing how to deal with files in a clean way is a critical skill in a data wrangler's repertoire. Toward the end, we tested our newly learned skills by creating our own CSV parser.

In the next chapter, we will be dealing with the three most important libraries, namely NumPy, pandas, and matplotlib.

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Key benefits

  • Explore data wrangling with the help of real-world examples and business use cases
  • Study various ways to extract the most value from your data in minimal time
  • Boost your knowledge with bonus topics, such as random data generation and data integrity checks

Description

While a huge amount of data is readily available to us, it is not useful in its raw form. For data to be meaningful, it must be curated and refined. If you’re a beginner, then The Data Wrangling Workshop will help to break down the process for you. You’ll start with the basics and build your knowledge, progressing from the core aspects behind data wrangling, to using the most popular tools and techniques. This book starts by showing you how to work with data structures using Python. Through examples and activities, you’ll understand why you should stay away from traditional methods of data cleaning used in other languages and take advantage of the specialized pre-built routines in Python. Later, you’ll learn how to use the same Python backend to extract and transform data from an array of sources, including the internet, large database vaults, and Excel financial tables. To help you prepare for more challenging scenarios, the book teaches you how to handle missing or incorrect data, and reformat it based on the requirements from your downstream analytics tool. By the end of this book, you will have developed a solid understanding of how to perform data wrangling with Python, and learned several techniques and best practices to extract, clean, transform, and format your data efficiently, from a diverse array of sources.

What you will learn

Get to grips with the fundamentals of data wrangling Understand how to model data with random data generation and data integrity checks Discover how to examine data with descriptive statistics and plotting techniques Explore how to search and retrieve information with regular expressions Delve into commonly-used Python data science libraries Become well-versed with how to handle and compensate for missing data

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Table of Contents

11 Chapters
Preface Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
1. Introduction to Data Wrangling with Python Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Advanced Operations on Built-In Data Structures Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Introduction to NumPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. A Deep Dive into Data Wrangling with Python Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Getting Comfortable with Different Kinds of Data Sources Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Learning the Hidden Secrets of Data Wrangling Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Advanced Web Scraping and Data Gathering Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. RDBMS and SQL Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Applications in Business Use Cases and Conclusion of the Course Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Appendix Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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