ChallengeConservationPYTHON+20 XP

Data Analytics case 3: Data cleaning for Conservation

Scenario

You are a data professional. A national game reserve has an issue: the animal_counts export has blank and duplicated rows, so reports disagree. As a Reporting Analyst, you are tasked to solve it.

Question

Remove duplicates and blanks, then report the clean total.

Your task

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Deliverable: Clean row count and corrected total
On success it is published as its own portfolio project

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Data Analytics · Problem Solving & Root Cause Analysis — question 3 of 30

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1. Choose your dataset

Pick an industry and a size. Your code and results change to match.

IndustrySize

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Data Analytics case 3: Data cleaning for Conservation

Remove duplicates and blanks, then report the clean total.

In [1]:

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python editoranimal_counts

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📂 Opens the "animal_counts" table→✅ Shows you the answer

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Dataset & schema

animal_counts

IndustryDataset size

The tiny starter data. Bigger data scrolls.

Fields

count_id	species	seen
A1	Rhino	4
A2	Lion	7
A3	Rhino	3
A4	Zebra	12

Conservation data only.

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2 left

Drops duplicates
Drops blanks