What’s the best way to clean and prepare a dataset or data set for analysis? or How do you handle mis

For beginners, I’d recommend Datawrapper’s "Clean Data" guide—super simple and no coding needed.

My quick checklist:
1. Trim whitespace (so many hidden spaces ruin things).
2. Fix inconsistent naming ("NY" vs "New York").
3. Check for outliers (like a age of 999 lol).

If you’re scared of Python, try CSVkit—it’s command-line but super lightweight.