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Learning pandas

You're reading from   Learning pandas High performance data manipulation and analysis using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787123137
Length 446 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Michael Heydt Michael Heydt
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. pandas and Data Analysis FREE CHAPTER 2. Up and Running with pandas 3. Representing Univariate Data with the Series 4. Representing Tabular and Multivariate Data with the DataFrame 5. Manipulating DataFrame Structure 6. Indexing Data 7. Categorical Data 8. Numerical and Statistical Methods 9. Accessing Data 10. Tidying Up Your Data 11. Combining, Relating, and Reshaping Data 12. Data Aggregation 13. Time-Series Modelling 14. Visualization 15. Historical Stock Price Analysis

Concatenating rows

The rows from multiple DataFrame objects can be concatenated to each other using the pd.concat() function and by specifying axis=0. The default operation of pd.concat() on two DataFrame objects along the row axis operates in the same way as the .append() method.

This is demonstrated by reconstructing the two datasets from the earlier append example and concatenating them instead.

If the set of columns in all DataFrame objects is not identical, pandas will fill those values with NaN.

Duplicate index labels can result as the rows are copied verbatim from the source objects. The keys parameter can be used to help differentiate which data frame a set of rows originated from. The following demonstrates by using keys to add a level to the index representing the source object:

We will examine hierarchical indexes in more detail in Chapter 6, Working with Indexes...
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