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Pretty sure "data wrangling" boils down to god-tier regex knowledge - which is less theoretical heavy-lifting than an acquired art that comes with practice.
by nr2x 6y ago
Pretty sure "data wrangling" boils down to god-tier regex knowledge - which is less theoretical heavy-lifting than an acquired art that comes with practice.
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- teruakohatu 6y agoIt is more than that and it is what Data Scientists spend a significant amount of time doing. Real world data is extremely messy and a lot of time is often spent understanding what exactly the data is, changing it from wide to long, deciding how to deal with missing values etc. This highly cited paper is a good introduction to the subject: https://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.pdf https://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.pdf
- nr2x 6y agoYes, I’ve been doing this for 20 years, I’m aware.