Odum Institute: Working with Messy Data

When working with data, one thing is fairly certain: data is rarely in an optimal format. A misplaced space here, or an extra comma there, can mean the difference between two clicks and two hours of work. In this course, we will work with ways to isolate, extract, and transform data from webpages, text files, and published datasets using Python and Pandas. This Odum Institute class will also introduce regular expressions, a language for matching specific parts of text.

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