Data I/O and Preprocessing with Python and SQL

Most real-world data isn’t clean, it’s messy, incomplete, and spread across sources like websites, APIs, and databases. In this course, you’ll learn how to collect that data, clean it, and prepare it for analysis using Python and SQL. You’ll start by extracting data from webpages using tools like Pandas and Beautiful Soup, while also learning how to handle unstructured text and apply ethical scraping practices. Next, you’ll access real-time data through APIs, parse JSON files, and clean numerical data using techniques like normalization and binning. You’ll also learn how to manage authentica…