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In order to advance my skills in the field of data science, I have taken Udacity’s free Introduction to Data Analysis course. I found this course to be a bit problematic to complete, and below are my comments on it:-
Lesson 1 — Data Analysis Process
The data analysis process is:-
- Question
- Wrangle (data acquisition and data cleaning)
- Explore (build intuition and find patterns)
- Draw conclusions (predict and conclude)
- Communicate (blog post, paper, email, presentation, or conversation)
The lesson begins with reading csv files into Python. I am accustomed to using pandas to read files, so it was somewhat of a surprise to read a csv file in using a library other than pandas.
I was not able to paste one of the csv files into Google Docs, so I had to paste it into MS Word. I found out that I was unable to read the file into Python using the means provided in the course, so I had to research the internet and found the answer in the stackoverflow website.
I have written a post on this and it can be found at:- https://medium.com/geekculture/how-to-read-a-ms-word-document-into-python-2c4e6e1b967e
