> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://fennaf.gitbook.io/dataprocessing/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://fennaf.gitbook.io/dataprocessing/master.md).

# Preface

## Preface

This is the ebook accompanying the course **Data Preparation.** This gitbook covers the fundamentals of data analysis (in python). Basic skills such as data processing and data visualisation are discussed. The following topics are covered

1\. Introduction programming in python, work with data frames

2\. Inspecting and exploring data, descriptive statistics

3\. Improve data quality, data cleaning, imputing data, normalising data

4\. Data visualisation, commonly used plots in data science

&#x20;Source code and data used in this ebook <https://github.com/fenna/datapreparation>