What are some good resources to learn how to cleanse data using Python?
18th December 2013
My answer to What are some good resources to learn how to cleanse data using Python? on Quora
http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/ “Text Processing in Python” is a free online book that covers a bunch of useful topics related to data cleanup. It’s over 10 years old now but is still mostly relevant—the chapter on regular expressions is particularly good.More recent articles
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