Data Wrangler's Handbook: Simple Tools for Powerful Results [Pehme köide]

Data manipulation and analysis are far easier than you might imagine—in fact, using tools that come standard with your desktop computer, you can learn how to extract, manipulate, and analyze data (and metadata) of any size and complexity. In this handbook, data wizard Banerjee will familiarize you with easily digestible but powerful concepts that will enable you to feel confident working with data. With his expert guidance, you'll learn how to

• use a single-word command to sort files of any size by any criteria, identify duplicates, and perform numerous other common library tasks;
• understand data formats, delimited text and CSV files, XML, JSON, scripting, and other key components of data;
• undertake more sophisticated tasks such as comparing files, converting data from one format to another, reformatting values, combining data from multiple files, and communicating with APIs (Application Programming Interfaces);
• save time and stress through simple techniques for transforming text, recognizing symbols that perform important tasks, a Regular Expression cheat sheet, a glossary, and other tools.

Library technologists and those involved in maintaining and analyzing data and metadata will find Banerjee’s resource essential.

Data manipulation and analysis are far easier than you might imagine—in fact, using tools that come standard with your desktop computer, you can learn how to extract, manipulate, and analyze data (and metadata) of any size and complexity.

"Data manipulation and analysis are far easier than you might imagine - in fact, using tools that come standard with your desktop computer, you can learn how to extract, manipulate, and analyze data (and metadata) of any size and complexity. In this handbook, data wizard Banerjee will familiarize you with easily digestible but powerful concepts that will enable you to feel confident working with data. With his expert guidance, you'll learn how to use a single-word command to sort files of any size by anycriteria, identify duplicates, and perform numerous other common library tasks; understand data formats, delimited text and CSV files, XML, JSON, scripting, and other key components of data; undertake more sophisticated tasks such as comparing files, converting data from one format to another, reformatting values, combining data from multiple files, and communicating with APIs (Application Programming Interfaces); and save time and stress through simple techniques for transforming text, recognizing symbols that perform important tasks, a Regular Expression cheat sheet, a glossary, and other tools"--

Banerjee, who has worked with data in academic, government, and nonprofit settings, offers a handbook for librarians that explains simple methods that can be used on any computer for managing, extracting, or analyzing text-based data. Focusing on the most essential information, he describes the computer environment and basic concepts for navigating it, including finding the command line; how to apply command line concepts; formats and performing sophisticated operations on delimited text, XML (eXtensible Markup Language), JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), and other formats; how to simplify complicated data problems; tools and techniques for delimited texts, XML, and JSON; scripting; and solving common problems, such as viewing large files, locating files with particular data or characteristics, working with internal metadata or APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), and combining data from different sources. The book ends with commands and functions useful in a library context. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)