Data Types in Pandas
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Understanding the Pandas DataFrame
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Taking a deeper look at the Pandas DataFrame and the components that make up this data container.
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Tidy Data Principles
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Exploring the 3 principles of "Tidy Data" and solving some of the most common data structure issues using Python Pandas
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Python Version Management with Pyenv
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Pyenv is a tool that manages different python versions and allows you to seamlessly switch between them.
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Python: Add Folder If It Does Not Exist
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Web Scraping w/ Selenium & BeautifulSoup
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Selenium & BeautifulSoup are Python packages used to control web browsers and parse website code. Here is how I used these packages to automate the process of copy/pasting table data from a website and saving into a text file.
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Crimes In Boston
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Data Context¶
Crime incident reports are provided by Boston Police Department (BPD) to document the initial details surrounding an incident to which BPD officers respond. This is a dataset containing records from the new crime incident report system, which includes a reduced set of fields focused on capturing the type of incident as well as when and where it occurred.
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