Rectangular data chapter from Learning Data Science

This is an unmodified (as per license below - but see caveats) copy of the original files at https://github.com/DS-100/textbook, as of commit d30fde27.

Learning Data Science

By Sam Lau, Joey Gonzalez, and Deb Nolan.

Learning Data Science is an introductory textbook for data science published by O'Reilly Media in 2023. It covers foundational skills in programming and statistics that encompass the data science lifecycle. The reader's assumed background is detailed in the Preface.

The contents of this book are licensed for free consumption under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Caveats

In fact, breaking the letter but not the spirit of the license, there is a bug-fix in the pandas_exercises.ipynb and sql_exercises.ipynb notebooks, which otherwise break on import with current Pandas. See those files for comment and detail, and this issue for my report.