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SQL vs Python For Data Cleaning - Issue 84

What is better for data cleaning - SQL or Python? How to use them for data transformation, analysis, and refactoring.

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Olga Berezovsky
Mar 02, 2022
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The sad truth is Data Scientists and Analysts spend most of their time doing data cleaning, according to one of the Anaconda surveys. It’s common to use Python for data transformation, but over the last few years, SQL has become a popular method proving to be more cost and time optimized. In this issue, I’ll walk through the basics of common data cleani…

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