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5 comprehending data
Work that data!
Life could be so much
easier if only she’d let me
help her extract, sort, and
comprehend her data...
Data comes in all shapes and sizes, formats and encodings.
To work effectively with your data, you often have to manipulate and transform it into a
common format to allow for efficient processing, sorting, and storage. In this chapter, you’ll
explore Python goodies that help you work your data up into a sweat, allowing you to
achieve data-munging greatness. So, flip the page, and let’s not keep the coach waiting…
this is a new chapter 139
