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Week 06

Cleaning Data

// Fixing messy data without changing what it means

Data sets of any size have challenges: they need cleaning, and they can be incomplete or invalid. Open-box answers are often not uniform, because people spell, shorten and capitalize in different ways. Cleaning makes data uniform without changing their meaning, and a cleaning log records every choice. Filtering keeps only some rows, transforming changes every item, combining adds or compares data, and visualizing shows it in a chart. Cleaning choices can hide voices, because bias can enter at every level.

DAYS THIS WEEK

MONDAY

Monday

14 blocks · 3 graded

TUESDAY

Tuesday

13 blocks · 4 graded

WEDNESDAY

Wednesday

14 blocks · 3 graded

THURSDAY

Thursday

16 blocks · 3 graded

FRIDAY

Friday

15 blocks · 4 graded

MISSION QUEST

Mission Quest

8 blocks · 2 graded

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