September 2021
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
11h 39m
English
Overview
Take the next steps in your data science career! This friendly and hands-on guide shows you how to start mastering Pandas with skills you already know from spreadsheet software.
In Pandas in Action you will learn how to:
Pandas has rapidly become one of Python's most popular data analysis libraries. In Pandas in Action, a friendly and example-rich introduction, author Boris Paskhaver shows you how to master this versatile tool and take the next steps in your data science career. You’ll learn how easy Pandas makes it to efficiently sort, analyze, filter and munge almost any type of data.
About the Technology
Data analysis with Python doesn’t have to be hard. If you can use a spreadsheet, you can learn pandas! While its grid-style layouts may remind you of Excel, pandas is far more flexible and powerful. This Python library quickly performs operations on millions of rows, and it interfaces easily with other tools in the Python data ecosystem. It’s a perfect way to up your data game.
About the Book
Pandas in Action introduces Python-based data analysis using the amazing pandas library. You’ll learn to automate repetitive operations and gain deeper insights into your data that would be impractical—or impossible—in Excel. Each chapter is a self-contained tutorial. Realistic downloadable datasets help you learn from the kind of messy data you’ll find in the real world.
What's Inside
About the Reader
For readers experienced with spreadsheets and basic Python programming.
About the Author
Boris Paskhaver is a software engineer, Agile consultant, and online educator. His programming courses have been taken by 300,000 students across 190 countries.
Quotes
Of all the introductory pandas books I’ve read—and I did read a few—this is the best, by a mile.
- Erico Lendzian, idibu.com
This approachable guide will get you up and running quickly with all the basics you need to analyze your data.
- Jonathan Sharley, SiriusXM Media
Understanding and putting in practice the concepts of this book will help you increase productivity and make you look like a pro.
- Jose Apablaza, Steadfast Networks
Teaches both novice and expert Python users the essential concepts required for data analysis and data science.
- Ben McNamara, DataGeek
In Pandas in Action you will learn how to:
- Import datasets, identify issues with their data structures, and optimize them for efficiency
- Sort, filter, pivot, and draw conclusions from a dataset and its subsets
- Identify trends from text-based and time-based data
- Organize, group, merge, and join separate datasets
- Use a GroupBy object to store multiple DataFrames
Pandas has rapidly become one of Python's most popular data analysis libraries. In Pandas in Action, a friendly and example-rich introduction, author Boris Paskhaver shows you how to master this versatile tool and take the next steps in your data science career. You’ll learn how easy Pandas makes it to efficiently sort, analyze, filter and munge almost any type of data.
About the Technology
Data analysis with Python doesn’t have to be hard. If you can use a spreadsheet, you can learn pandas! While its grid-style layouts may remind you of Excel, pandas is far more flexible and powerful. This Python library quickly performs operations on millions of rows, and it interfaces easily with other tools in the Python data ecosystem. It’s a perfect way to up your data game.
About the Book
Pandas in Action introduces Python-based data analysis using the amazing pandas library. You’ll learn to automate repetitive operations and gain deeper insights into your data that would be impractical—or impossible—in Excel. Each chapter is a self-contained tutorial. Realistic downloadable datasets help you learn from the kind of messy data you’ll find in the real world.
What's Inside
- Organize, group, merge, split, and join datasets
- Find trends in text-based and time-based data
- Sort, filter, pivot, optimize, and draw conclusions
- Apply aggregate operations
About the Reader
For readers experienced with spreadsheets and basic Python programming.
About the Author
Boris Paskhaver is a software engineer, Agile consultant, and online educator. His programming courses have been taken by 300,000 students across 190 countries.
Quotes
Of all the introductory pandas books I’ve read—and I did read a few—this is the best, by a mile.
- Erico Lendzian, idibu.com
This approachable guide will get you up and running quickly with all the basics you need to analyze your data.
- Jonathan Sharley, SiriusXM Media
Understanding and putting in practice the concepts of this book will help you increase productivity and make you look like a pro.
- Jose Apablaza, Steadfast Networks
Teaches both novice and expert Python users the essential concepts required for data analysis and data science.
- Ben McNamara, DataGeek
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