Functional data cleaning: The How#
We have three rules for cleaning data in a functional way:
Start with an empty DataFrame
Touch every variable just once
Touch with a pure function
Learning Objectives#
After working through this topic, you should be able to:
reproduce the three rules of functional data cleaning
apply the three rules whenever you are writing data cleaning code
discuss different strategies for applying the rules in Python scripts and Jupyter notebooks
Materials#
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