at this point i just really want a good programmer to come in and fix all my code and pat me on the head and make everything okay cause im about to start crying from frustration here
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ive hit the point where i got 90% of what i need to do finished, but the code is messy and weird and slow, and the last tiny 10% is confusing af and i cant get the motivation to do it cause its only the last bit and i just wanna be saved by an all powerful diety
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but i cant just like, send my data to someone else and beg them to fix it for me, cause the data is super sensitive/private. i wanna die
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Come up with a small fake sample dataset and give it to whoever you ask for help with the code?
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The fake sample data can be very small … even just 50 survey respondents. You can give them fake names and inputs in places.
Important thing is the columns match.
That should be enough for a coder to test/finish the program, which you can then run on the real data
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The easiest doable way is to export to Excel, preserve a master copy and then start manually adjusting things. Labor intensive but you can chip away at it at least
Just use numpy to generate fake data. If you want within a range, you can np.random.randint(). If you want to generate random dates you can use pd.to_datetime() and give unit as ‘a’.
And just loop through columns using a for loop and create a new data frame
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