Data Cleaning Pocket Primer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oswald Campesato, Campesato

Series:

Pocket Primer

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Mercury Learning & Information

Summary:

As part of the best selling Pocket Primerseries, 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).

ISBN:

9781683922186

1683922182