Introducing the pandas Series and DataFrame

Let's jump into using some pandas with a brief introduction to pandas two main data structures, the Series and the DataFrame. We will examine the following:

• Importing pandas into your application
• Creating and manipulating a pandas Series
• Creating and manipulating a pandas DataFrame
• Loading data from a file into a DataFrame

Importing pandas

Every notebook we will use starts by importing pandas and several other useful Python libraries first. It will also set up several options to control how pandas renders output in a Jupyter Notebook. This code consists of the following:

The first statement imports NumPy and refers to items in the library as np.. We won't go into much...