This book aims to give programmers sufficient knowledge of data cleaning to be able to work on their own projects. Author Oswald Campesato has written it as a practical introduction to using flexible, powerful (and free) Unix / Linux shell commands to perform common data cleaning tasks. He provides realistic examples and numerous commands that illustrate both the syntax and how the commands work together. 

The book

Author: Oswald Campesato
Publisher: Mercury Learning
Date: Jan 2018
Pages: 188
ISBN: 978-1683922179
Print: 1683922174
Kindle: B0797MX7PC
Audience: Developers working under Linux
Level: Introductory
Category: Data Science and Operating Systems 

• A practical introduction to using flexible, powerful (and free) Unix / Linux shell commands to perform common data cleaning tasks
• Includes the concept of piping data between commands, regular expression substitution, and the sed and awk commands
• Packed with realistic examples and numerous commands that illustrate both the syntax and how the commands work together
• Assumes the reader has no prior experience, but the topic is covered comprehensively enough to teach a pro some new tricks
• Includes companion files with all of the source code examples available from the publisher for downloading

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