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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:52:13 -0700 (PDT)
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List folk,

I am a newbie trying to get used to Python. I was wondering if anyone knows of web resources that teach good practices in data cleaning and management for statistics/analytics/machine learning, particularly using Python.

Ideally, these would be exercises of the form: here is some horrible raw data --> here is what it should look like after it has been cleaned. Guidelines about steps that should always be taken, practices that should be avoided; basically, workflow of data analysis in Python with special emphasis on the cleaning part.