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Data Processing in Shell

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Updated 10/2025
Learn powerful command-line skills to download, process, and transform data, including machine learning pipeline.
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Course Description

We live in a busy world with tight deadlines. As a result, we fall back on what is familiar and easy, favoring GUI interfaces like Visual Studio and RStudio. However, taking the time to learn data analysis on the command line is a great long-term investment because it makes us stronger and more productive data people.In this course, we will take a practical approach to learn simple, powerful, and data-specific command-line skills. Using publicly available Spotify datasets, we will learn how to download, process, clean, and transform data, all via the command line. We will also learn advanced techniques such as command-line based SQL database operations. Finally, we will combine the powers of command line and Python to build a data pipeline for automating a predictive model.

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Introduction to ShellIntermediate PythonIntermediate SQL
1

Downloading Data on the Command Line

In this chapter, we learn how to download data files from web servers via the command line. In the process, we also learn about documentation manuals, option flags, and multi-file processing.
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Data Cleaning and Munging on the Command Line

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Database Operations on the Command Line

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Data Pipeline on the Command Line

In the last chapter, we bridge the connection between command line and other data science languages and learn how they can work together. Using Python as a case study, we learn to execute Python on the command line, to install dependencies using the package manager pip, and to build an entire model pipeline using the command line.
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FAQs

Will I receive a certificate at the end of the course?

Yes, once you have successfully completed the course and passed the assessments, you will receive a digital certificate of completion that you can use to show off your new data processing skills in shell.

Who will benefit from this course?

This course is designed to help data professionals and developers who want to use the command line to work with data. Everyone from data engineers to data analysts and data scientists could benefit from being able to use the command line for data processing.

What topics will be covered in this course?

This course will teach you about downloading data on the command line, data cleaning and munging, database operations on the command line, and how to build a data pipeline on the command line.

What software will I need in order to take this course?

You will need to have a basic command-line environment set up on your computer as well as be comfortable using Python. A prior understanding of concepts such as Pandas and SQL will be helpful but not necessary.

What will I be able to do after completing this course?

After this course is complete, you will have a better understanding of how to work with data efficiently from the command line. You will be able to download, process, clean and transform data, manage databases, and create data pipelines using the command line.

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