Week 3 (4/28/2025)
โ Week 3 โ Numpy, Pandas, and Text Cleaning
๐ฏ Weekly Goals
- Understand array and matrix operations using Numpy
- Learn Pandas DataFrame operations and text processing
- Write text cleaning functions (remove HTML, stopwords, special chars)
๐ Recommended Resources
- ๐ Python for Data Analysis (Wes McKinney) โ Chapters 2, 4, 7
- Kaggle - Python Data Cleaning
- Numpy Quickstart
โ Daily Tasks
- Day 1โ2: Numpy array, indexing, reshaping
- Day 3โ4: Pandas DataFrames: load, filter, merge
- Day 5โ6: Write text preprocessing pipeline
- Day 7: Build early
clean_text(text)API logic
๐งช Weekly Review
- Test text cleaning on real scam samples
- Upload Jupyter notebook to GitHub with examples
- Write a blog/summary explaining preprocessing