Data preprocessing with Python Pandas

Part 1 — Missing Data

Angelica Lo Duca
Towards Data Science
6 min readNov 12, 2020

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This tutorial explains how to preprocess data using the pandas library. Preprocessing is the process of doing a pre-analysis of data, in order to transform them into a standard and normalized format.

Preprocessing involves the following aspects:

  • missing values
  • data standardization

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