Data Preparation Handbook teaches you to tackle the challenges you’ll face as you work with data. You’ll master popular data wrangling tools like Python and Alteryx. Complex data prep concepts are broken down into clear, manageable steps and fully illustrated with engaging data sets—including data on the Titanic disaster, rating video games, sentiment analysis of Los Angeles restaurant recommendations, and more. The book is packed with vital advice for complex tasks, including merging multiple data sets, alerting systems for data quality, and scaling data preparation into large cloud-based pipelines. Learn universal techniques for data enrichment and transformation, and specialized approaches optimized for machine learning, analytics, and creating AI.