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+# Project-Prep-Series-02-Data-Preparation
+Data preparation is a critical prerequisite to any downstream analysis, especially within the context of machine learning appliactions. The purpose of the following workshop is to familiarize students with some data preprocessing basics in Python 3+, using .csv and .png files.