26. Gathering Summary

Gather: Summary

Gathering is the first step in the data wrangling process:

  • Gather
  • Assess
  • Clean

Depending on the source of your data, and what format it's in, the steps in gathering data vary.

The high-level gathering process:

  • obtaining data (downloading a file from the internet, scraping a web page, querying an API, etc.)
  • importing that data into your programming environment (e.g. Jupyter Notebook)

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