Chapter 3: Data Transformation

[alexmcsw]

this chapter needs a second half in order to meet learning objectives

process tabular data files in Python?
How can I remove empty values in my data?
How can I prepare my data for analysis?

[pennymcg]

I think the problem is we are getting ahead of ourselves. If we look at http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-gapminder/07-reading-tabular.html. We would be better off with adding a straight intro to tabular data with pandas borrowed from the plotting with python course. Then putting in an extra section just before the Data Analysis to have 8. Data Transformation / Cleaning followed by 9. Data Analysis.