How to Learn Pandas
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10 min readNov 14, 2017
In this post, I will outline a strategy to ‘learn pandas’. For those who are unaware, pandas is the most popular library in the scientific Python ecosystem for doing data analysis. Pandas is capable of many tasks including:
- Reading/writing many different data formats
- Selecting subsets of data
- Calculating across rows and down columns
- Finding and filling missing data
- Applying operations to independent groups within the data
- Reshaping data into different forms
- Combing multiple datasets together
- Advanced time-series functionality
- Visualization through matplotlib and seaborn
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Continuing
Although pandas is very capable, it does not provide functionality for the entire data science pipeline. Pandas…