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Hands-On Data Analysis with NumPy and pandas

You're reading from   Hands-On Data Analysis with NumPy and pandas Implement Python packages from data manipulation to processing

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789530797
Length 168 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Curtis Miller Curtis Miller
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What does pandas do?

pandas introduces two key objects to Python, series and DataFrames, with the latter arguably being the most useful, but pandas DataFrames can be thought of as series bound together. A series is a sequence of data, like a list in basic Python or a 1D NumPy array. And, like the NumPy array, a series has a single data type, but indexing with a series is different. With NumPy there is not much control over row and column indices; but with a series, each element in the series must have a unique index, name, key, however you want to think about it. The index could consist of strings, such as cities in a nation, with the corresponding elements of the series denoting some statistical value, such as the city's population; or dates, such as trading days for a stock series.

A DataFrame can be thought of as multiple series of common length, with a common index, bound...

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