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Do you often find that you have to clean data to get it in a readable and usable format?
In this weekly challenge, you need to clean data and organize it into a format that is more suitable for analysis.
The dataset contains information about the Olympic Games:
1. Participating Country
2. Country Code
3. Total Summer Games
4. Total Gold Medals Summer
5. Total Silver Medals Summer
6. Total Bronze Medals Summer
7. Total Medals Combined Summer
8. Total Winter Games
9. Total Gold Medals Winter
10. Total Silver Medals Winter
11. Total Bronze Medals Winter
12. Total Medals Combined Winter
13. Total Combined Games
14. Total Gold Medals Combined Games
15. Total Silver Medals Combined Games
16. Total Bronze Medals Combined Games
17. Total All Medals Combined Games
However, the data is all compiled in one field.
Your goal is to:
- Parse the data in columns.
- Clean out the special characters for the Country Code (for example, update “(AFG)” to “AFG”).
- Name the new columns (as shown above).
Data Source: www.kaggle.com/datasets/rushikeshlavate/olympic-games-medal-datasetfrom-1896-to-2018
Here's my approach
the field name from the input was parsed and cleaned to yield unique field names that I leverage from the dynamic rename going forward