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Data Cleaning
Pocket Primer
ISBN: 978-1-68392-217-9
Pub Date: January 2018
Specs: 6 x 9 Paperback
Pages: 150
Price: $39.95
As part of the best selling Pocket Primer series, this book is an effort to give programmers sufficient knowledge of data cleaning to be able to work on their own projects. It is designed as a practical introduction to using flexible, powerful (and free) Unix / Linux shell commands to perform common data cleaning tasks. The book is packed with realistic examples and numerous commands that illustrate both the syntax and how the commands work together. Companion files with source code are available for downloading from the publisher.
FEATURES
- A practical introduction to using flexible, powerful (and free) Unix / Linux shell commands to perform common data cleaning tasks
- Includes the concept of piping data between commands, regular expression substitution, and the sed and awk commands
- Packed with realistic examples and numerous commands that illustrate both the syntax and how the commands work together
- Assumes the reader has no prior experience, but the topic is covered comprehensively enough to teach a pro some new tricks
- Includes companion files with all of the source code examples (download from the publisher)
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
1: Introduction. 2: Useful Commands. 3: Filtering Data with grep. 4: Transforming Data with sed. 5: Doing Everything Else with awk. Appendix: Other Code Samples. Index.
ON THE COMPANION FILES!
(available from the publisher for downloading)
- Source code samples
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Oswald Campesato (San Francisco, CA) specializes in D3, Java, Android, and CSS3/SVG graphics. He is the author/co-author of over twenty books including Android Pocket Primer, Angular4 Pocket Primer, and the Python Pocket Primer (Mercury Learning).