Welcome to the Data Wrangling Handbook!

Data wrangling for fun and profit

This handbook is not a finished document but a collection of opinions and evolving best practices. The purpose is not to present all available options and technologies but to pick one and follow it through.

The Handbook is also a collaborative effort: if you have a recipe, a tool or a howto and would like to share them, please contribute a patch or make a suggestion.

The Handbook consists of two main parts:

• Guides and Tutorials: Guides and tutorials that walks you the main aspects of data wrangling
• Patterns: A set of “patterns” or recipes for doing specific tasks from scraping an HTML table to geocoding in a spreadsheet

Guides and Tutorials

• Walk-through of some Data Wrangling basic tasks
• SQL for Data Manipulation
• Introduction CSV - the Lingua Franca of Data
• Glossary of Terms

Contributing

• Edit directly on the Handbook Github Repository
• Submit an issue to our Issue Tracker