Storing and Protecting Data

Learn to see where we store and protect data for later use.

Storing of the data

We’ll generate data in CSV and JSON files while collecting and cleaning data sets. We’ll also store our Python scripts in .ipynb notebook files. Thankfully, Jupyter will regularly autosave your notebooks. These files are live in a Docker container, as shown in the following figure.

Protecting the data

If the host is shut down for the last time and decommissioned (or corrupted beyond repair), our CSV and .ipynb files go with it. To preserve all that data, make sure up-to-date copies exist in reliable places. After all, data doesn’t back itself up.

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Where are the live CSV and JSON files?

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