Data acquisition and cleaning Copy

This lesson has been created as a partnership between Code for Africa and the World Bank. Source materials can be found at the World Bank Open Data Toolkit and are reproduced with kind permission. In this lesson you will learn about the more technical aspects in preparing your data for analysis, including acquiring data, data scraping techniques, and data cleaning, including:

• How to understand different data formats and when to use them
• How to make human-readable data compatible with data software
• How to find and correct data errors and imperfections