UO Data Acquisition and Wrangling

Course aim

To design ingestion mechanisms from existing databases that prepare data for further analysis.

Course content

Topics covered in this course include: different data types and formats; regular expressions; web scraping; data exploration, visualisation and preliminary analysis, data profiling and exploratory data analysis; data quality verification, missing data analysis; data wrangling; data cleansing; filtering; sampling; normalisation; visualisations.

Textbooks

Nil

Prerequisites

Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
Group 1 Students must complete one of the following courses
INFT 1032	UO Data Driven Web Technologies
INFS 1025	Data Driven Web Technologies

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching Method

Component	Duration
EXTERNAL, ONLINE ACTIVITY
Online	10 weeks x N/A

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Programming exercise, Proposal, Report

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
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