Data Wrangling and Web Scraping

Catalog description

Finding, cleaning, and preparing data is often required prior to conducting any data analysis. Data wrangling often accounts for the majority of the time spent working with data and learning these concepts is fundamental to the data science process. Students will learn how to manipulate and clean data for analyses and visualizations, read data from web pages, and merge multiple data sets of reasonable sizes. Prerequisite Skills and Knowledge: Students should enter the course with basic knowledge of a programming language (such as R or Python).