Parsing Data with Functions

Overview

Teaching: 10 min
Exercises: 10 min

Questions

• How can I execute the same code on different data?

Objectives

• Write functions to accomplish repeatable tasks

• Use the functions in a library to handle tricky tasks like parsing call numbers

• Utilize loops to apply functions to rows of data

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Key Points

• Write functions to efficiently run code you want to reuse.

• Functions can make use of other functions - those you import from libraries, as well as those you write yourself.

• Well written and tested functions can reliably do things that might be hard to accomplish by hand.