Week 5: File Formats & Data Pipelines

CSV, JSON, XML, Excel, text parsing, regex, cleaning pipelines

📌 Strategy & Study Guidance

Complete all exercises before moving to next block.

Blocks

Block 41 Monday

CSV & JSON with Standard Library

 Block 42 Monday

Excel with pandas & openpyxl

 Block 43 Tuesday

XML Parsing

 Block 44 Tuesday

Text & Log File Parsing

 Block 45 Wednesday

Regex for Data Cleaning

 Block 46 Wednesday

PDF Reading with pdfplumber

 Block 47 Thursday

Image Basics with Pillow

 Block 48 Thursday

Building a Data Cleaning Pipeline

 Block 49 Friday

Data Merging from Multiple Sources

 Block 50 Friday

Mini-Project: Data Cleaning Notebook

📺 20 Curated YouTube Videos

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📋 Cheat Sheets

Quick Reference

Core syntax and common patterns for this week. Week 5 - CSV, JSON, XML, Excel, text parsing, regex, cleaning pipelines

API Cheat Sheet

Key functions and methods. Week 5 - CSV, JSON, XML, Excel, text parsing, regex, cleaning pipelines

Best Practices

Style and performance tips. Week 5 - CSV, JSON, XML, Excel, text parsing, regex, cleaning pipelines

💻 Code Snippets

Basic Example

# Week 5: File Formats & Data Pipelines
# Basic pattern for this topic
result = process(data)

Common Pattern

# Week 5: File Formats & Data Pipelines
# Frequently used pattern

Quick Start

# Week 5: File Formats & Data Pipelines
# Minimal working example

📊 Visualizations & Diagrams

Concept Diagram

flowchart LR
  A[Input] --> B[Process]
  B --> C[Output]

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Workflow

Step 1 -> Step 2 -> Step 3

Assessment

📝 Week 5 Assessment (Practice + AI Analysis)