PANDAS For Machine Learning

Paritosh Mahto
MLpoint
Published in
11 min readJul 31, 2020

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Pandas for Machine Learning

Pandas is one of the tools in Machine Learning which is used for data cleaning and analysis. It has features which are used for exploring, cleaning, transforming and visualizing from data.

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Now let us understand and learn more about Pandas-

1.Introduction to Pandas

Pandas is an open-source python package built on top of Numpy developed by Wes McKinney. It is used as one of the most important data cleaning and analysis tool. It provides fast, flexible, and expressive data structures.

Pandas is derived from the term “Panel-data-s” an econometrics term for data sets include observations over multiple time periods for the same individuals. -source Wikipedia

2. How to install Pandas?

You can install Pandas by using the following commands:

# To install pandas in terminal or command line use one of the commands
pip install pandas
# or
conda install pandas
# To install pandas in jupyter notebook use this command
!pip install pandas

3. How to import Pandas?

import pandas as pd

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