Chapter 2. Knowing Your Data
In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:
- Importing data from CSV
- Importing data from Microsoft Excel files
- Importing data from fixed-width data files
- Importing data from tab-delimited files
- Importing data from a JSON resource
- Exporting data to JSON, CSV, and Excel
- Importing and manipulating data with Pandas
- Importing data from a database
- Cleaning up data from outliers
- Reading files in chunks
- Reading streaming data sources
- Importing image data into NumPy arrays
- Generating controlled random datasets
- Smoothing the noise in real-world data
Introduction
This chapter covers basics about importing and exporting data from various formats. We first introduce how to import data by just using only the capabilities of the Python standard ...
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