Connecting the dots between data from different sources is becoming the most sought-after skill these days for everyone ranging from business professionals to data scientists. In this course, Combining and Shaping Data, you will gain the ability to connect the dots by pulling together data from disparate sources and shaping it so that extracting connections and relationships becomes relatively easy. First, you will learn how the most common constructs in shaping and combining data stay the same across spreadsheets, programming languages, and databases. Next, you will discover how to use joins and vlookups to obtain wide datasets, and then use pivots to shape that into long form. You will then see how both long and wide data can be aggregated to obtain higher level insights. You will work with Excel spreadsheets and SQL as well as Python. Finally, you will round out the course by integrating data from a variety of sources and working with streaming data, which helps your enterprise gain real-time insights into the world around you. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge to pull together data from disparate sources, including from streaming sources, to construct integrated data models that truly connect the dots.
Author Name: Janani Ravi
Author Description:
Janani has a Masters degree from Stanford and worked for 7+ years at Google. She was one of the original engineers on Google Docs and holds 4 patents for its real-time collaborative editing framework. After spending years working in tech in the Bay Area, New York, and Singapore at companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Flipkart, Janani finally decided to combine her love for technology with her passion for teaching. She is now the co-founder of Loonycorn, a content studio focused on providing … more