Welcome to Python

Overview

Data cleaning (aka data wrangling) is an important and necessary pre-step in the data analysis and visualization process. Come learn how to accomplish some of the most commonly encountered cleaning steps programmatically through Python & Pandas. 

It's interactive!

To properly learn Python, you must actually type out and execute code. To do that today we will be using Jupyter, and we provide a Jupyter notebook for you to open and follow along with (.ipynb extension). If you don't yet have Python and Jupyter installed, please proceed to the "Running Jupyter" section of this tutorial. If you already have Python and Jupyter installed, head to "Today's Course" to download today's course materials and start learning Python!

Take away

Remember, learning to code does not mean knowing what to do in every situation ever. It involves learning some of the basics of a language and knowing how and where to look up what you need when you can’t remember. To solidify the basics, it’s helpful to have a small task or project you would like to use Python for, so that you can begin applying what you learn here today. Happy coding! 😊