Python Pandas Basics

With Pandas ?

One of the most popular libraries in Python is arguably Pandas, if you want a dry, technical and scholarly explanation this is probably not it, I am here to try and give you the basics with simple code snippets and the occasional panda cartoon, your choice.

Panda dad is sorry about the pun.

If I ever had to explain Pandas at a cocktail party I would probably start by mentioning excel and spreadsheets, you have some data that fits in columns and rows, you want to make some operations in between cells, columns and rows, then you see the result in your spreadsheet…

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Pandas is very similar, you feed it some data that fits into rows and columns, you make some operations and you get a result, you just do all of this through commands that manipulate dataframes and series instead of spreadsheets, how you represent the information at the end is up to you (a chart, report, back to…