What Did we Learn and What to Expect in Assignment 3

Summary

Students are now expected to be able to:

• Explain what tidy data is.
• Use .melt() and .pivot() to reshape dataframes, specifically to make tidy data.
• Learn how to reset a dataframe’s index.
• Combine dataframes using .merge() and .concat() and know when to use these different methods.
• Understand the different joining methods.

The assignment will concentrate on the learning objectives as well as building knowledge on existing concepts.

Attribution

The cereal dataset:

“80 Cereals” (c) by Chris Crawford is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported

On to Assignment 3!