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Data Cleaning and Preprocessing With Pandas - Tutorial Guide

This tutorial guide focuses on data cleaning and preprocessing using Pandas, emphasizing the importance of handling missing data, duplicates, and inconsistencies. It outlines common techniques such as removing nulls, filling missing values, and standardizing formats, along with example code for practical implementation. The guide also includes review questions to reinforce understanding of the concepts presented.

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Data Cleaning and Preprocessing With Pandas - Tutorial Guide

This tutorial guide focuses on data cleaning and preprocessing using Pandas, emphasizing the importance of handling missing data, duplicates, and inconsistencies. It outlines common techniques such as removing nulls, filling missing values, and standardizing formats, along with example code for practical implementation. The guide also includes review questions to reinforce understanding of the concepts presented.

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Data Cleaning and Preprocessing with

Pandas – Tutorial Guide


Prepared as an academic resource
Table of Contents
Introduction
Raw data is often noisy, inconsistent, and incomplete. Data cleaning is a critical first step in
data analysis.

Learning Objectives
- Understand missing data handling

- Handle duplicate and inconsistent entries

- Use Pandas to preprocess data

Techniques Overview
Common techniques include:

- Removing nulls

- Filling missing values

- Standardizing formats

Example Code
import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv("data.csv")
df.fillna(0, inplace=True)
df.drop_duplicates(inplace=True)
df["date"] = pd.to_datetime(df["date"])

Summary
Data preprocessing ensures that the dataset is clean, consistent, and ready for analysis.

Review Questions
- What functions remove duplicates in Pandas?

- How can we fill missing values?

- How to convert a string to datetime?

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