Pandas Introduction

What is Pandas?

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Pandas is the fundamental package for data analysis in Python

Pandas stands for "Python Data Analysis Library". Pandas is an open-source add-on module to Python that is widely used in data munging/wrangling. It takes data (like csv/JSON/SQL file either offline or online) and creates a Python object with rows and cols that looks vert similar to Excel. It contains features to

• read and write data from different file types
• view and inspect data
• filter, sort, groupby, join and combine
• data cleaning
• DataFrame object highly optimized for performance

Python with pandas is in use in a wide variety of academic and commercial domains, including Finance, Neuroscience, Economics, Statistics, Advertising, Web Analytics, and more. For more details, refer Pandas Library Highlights and Towards Data Science - Quick intro to Pandas library.

Pandas Introduction - Notebook

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