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Loading and Normalizing Data

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Raw data comes in many forms: CSV, JSON, SQL, HTML, and so on. pandas provides data input and output functions for loading data into a pandas DataFrame and outputting data from a pandas DataFrame into various common formats. In this chapter, we’ll deep dive into some of these input functions and explore the various loading and normalization options they provide.

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    https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.read_hdf.html

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    https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.read_csv.html

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Stepanek, H. (2020). Loading and Normalizing Data. In: Thinking in Pandas. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5839-2_4

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