Dictionaries are Wonderful

by Elliott Hauser

31 Mar 2016

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Regex Exercise solved

Dictionaries

Dictionaries are like simple mini databases. They’re great at keeping track of statistics.

Today we’ll use dictionaries of dictionaries that will let you store and retrieve multiple stats about a state. This is a core data analysis skill.

Elliott Hauser is a PhD Student in information science at UNC Chapel Hill. He's hacking education as one of the cofounders of Trinket.io. Find Elliott Hauser on Twitter, Github, and on the web.