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Re:Lambda School lays off 65 employees by nr2x on Thursday April 29, 2021 @06:58PM (#26987875)
Pretty sure "data wrangling" boils down to god-tier regex knowledge - which is less theoretical heavy-lifting than an acquired art that comes with practice.
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Re:Lambda School lays off 65 employees by teruakohatu on Thursday April 29, 2021 @07:03PM (#26987932)
It is more than that and it is what Data Scientists spend a significant amount of time doing. Real world data is extremely messy and a lot of time is often spent understanding what exactly the data is, changing it from wide to long, deciding how to deal with missing values etc.

This highly cited paper is a good introduction to the subject:

https://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.pdf

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Re:Lambda School lays off 65 employees by nr2x on Thursday April 29, 2021 @07:13PM (#26988009)
Yes, I’ve been doing this for 20 years, I’m aware.
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