Darryl Blackport with a tutorial on Python data wrangling focusing on merging shot info from SportVU & official play-by-play data to create detailed logs.

Someone’s got to get their hands dirty Positive or negative, time spent with data wrangling (data prep and cleaning) seems to be declining. Although data scientists today report they spend 39% ...

If you’re a smaller AI company, there’s a huge opportunity in leveraging your knowledge of data collection, cleaning and management.

Data wrangling is cleaning data, connecting tools and getting data into a usable format; the sexy stuff is predictive analysis and modeling.

According to a Microsoft Research presentation from earlier this year, data scientists currently spend 80 percent of their time extracting and cleaning data -- AKA "data wrangling." ...