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Building Baseball Data Visualizations with Python

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Challenge
Game Files - Clean and Import Data
In this lab you’ll follow along with our instructions to build data visualizations that present data on Major League Baseball All-star games.
The data we will work with in this project is stored in several CSV files. In this module we will clean and import the data using the Pandas library. The event files for this project are provided by Retrosheet.
As per the Retrosheet license. The information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet. Interested parties may contact Retrosheet at "www.retrosheet.org". ### Solution The solution can be found in the
solution
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Attendance - Select and Plot Data
In this module, we will answer the question: "How has All-star game attendance changed over time?"
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Challenge
Pitching - Group Data
In this module, we will answer the question: "How have the number of strike outs changed over time?"
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Challenge
Offense - Reshape with Pivot
In this module, we will use the
pivot()
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Defensive Efficiency Ratio - Merge Data
Defensive Efficiency Ratio is used as a metric to gauge team defense. In this module we will calculate this for each league over time.
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