1. Introduction to Data Wrangling with Python

Overview

This chapter will help you understand the importance of data wrangling in data science. You will gain practical knowledge of how to manipulate the data structures that are available in Python by comparing the different implementations of the built-in Python data structures. Overall, this chapter describes the importance of data wrangling, identifies the important tasks to be performed in data wrangling, and introduces basic Python data structures. By the end of this chapter, you will be adept at working with lists, sets, and dictionaries, which are the key building blocks of data structures in Python.