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Working with Dates and Times in Python

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Learn how to work with dates and times in Python.

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You'll probably never have a time machine, but how about a machine for analyzing time? As soon as time enters any analysis, things can get weird. It's easy to get tripped up on day and month boundaries, time zones, daylight saving time, and all sorts of other things that can confuse the unprepared. If you're going to do any kind of analysis involving time, you’ll want to use Python to sort it out. Working with data sets on hurricanes and bike trips, we’ll cover counting events, figuring out how much time has elapsed between events and plotting data over time. You'll work in both standard Python and in Pandas, and we'll touch on the dateutil library, the only timezone library endorsed by the official Python documentation. After this course, you'll confidently handle date and time data in any format like a champion.
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    Dates and Calendars

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    Hurricanes (also known as cyclones or typhoons) hit the U.S. state of Florida several times per year. To start off this course, you'll learn how to work with date objects in Python, starting with the dates of every hurricane to hit Florida since 1950. You'll learn how Python handles dates, common date operations, and the right way to format dates to avoid confusion.

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    Dates in Python
    50 xp
    Which day of the week?
    100 xp
    How many hurricanes come early?
    100 xp
    Math with dates
    50 xp
    Subtracting dates
    100 xp
    Counting events per calendar month
    100 xp
    Putting a list of dates in order
    100 xp
    Turning dates into strings
    50 xp
    Printing dates in a friendly format
    100 xp
    Representing dates in different ways
    100 xp
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    Combining Dates and Times

    Bike sharing programs have swept through cities around the world -- and luckily for us, every trip gets recorded! Working with all of the comings and goings of one bike in Washington, D.C., you'll practice working with dates and times together. You'll parse dates and times from text, analyze peak trip times, calculate ride durations, and more.

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    Time Zones and Daylight Saving

    In this chapter, you'll learn to confidently tackle the time-related topic that causes people the most trouble: time zones and daylight saving. Continuing with our bike data, you'll learn how to compare clocks around the world, how to gracefully handle "spring forward" and "fall back," and how to get up-to-date timezone data from the dateutil library.

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    Easy and Powerful: Dates and Times in Pandas

    To conclude this course, you'll apply everything you've learned about working with dates and times in standard Python to working with dates and times in Pandas. With additional information about each bike ride, such as what station it started and stopped at and whether or not the rider had a yearly membership, you'll be able to dig much more deeply into the bike trip data. In this chapter, you'll cover powerful Pandas operations, such as grouping and plotting results by time.

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  • Vengadesh W.
    9 months

    It was good

  • Muhanad A.
    10 months

    very well constructed so when reaching how pandas deal with the issue we understand the logic. and enough time to follow the speaker while focusing on the code on the slide.

  • Ana U.
    12 months

    Outstanding! This course has everything you'd like to learn about dates and time.

  • Paulo P.
    about 1 year

    I like the course and I think it Washington very well designer.

  • Ruben C.
    about 1 year

    Fue muy interesante aprender formas sencillas de leer y tranformar datos de tipo fecha, adicional lo sencillo que es re-muestrearlos por periodos y agruparlos por otras variables.

"It was good"

Vengadesh W.

"very well constructed so when reaching how pandas deal with the issue we understand the logic. and enough time to follow the speaker while focusing on the code on the slide."

Muhanad A.

"Outstanding! This course has everything you'd like to learn about dates and time."

Ana U.

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