Week 6 Info: Working With Text and Strings

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Hello Class,

Today is the start of week 6, where we will learn tools for working with text, strings, and categories. These data types lack the strict mathematical structures that come with logical, numerical, and temporal data, and as a result require their own distinct set of tools. This week will involve a lot of practice learning new tools and functions for finding and matching patterns in text, such as regular expressions, and these tools will form the basis for a module in a few wooks on analyzing datasets derived from text mining or web scraping.

You will have a lab assignment titled Working with Text and Strings due next Sunday at midnight.

For your reading assignments and more details about this week, head over to Module 6.