Preparation

This session is mostly concerned with

To prepare, work through the following materials:

1. Accessing the file system in Python

   • File paths with pathlib

2. Basic Pandas: Practical commands

   • What is (modern) pandas

   • DataFrames and Series

   • Datatypes

   • Loading and saving data

   • Setting and renaming columns and indices

   • Inspecting and summarizing data

   • Creating variables

3. Basic Pandas: Best practices for data cleaning

   • Data management: Definitions and example

   • Imperative data cleaning Optional — only watch if you want to connect to what you might have been doing before this course

   • Functional data cleaning: The How