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Big Data Simplified
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Big Data Simplified

by Sayan Goswami, Amit Kumar Das, Sourabh Mukherjee
June 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
360 pages
10h 55m
English
Pearson Education India
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Working with Big Data inPython | 241
9.2.2 Pandas Library
‘pandas’ is a Python library which supports and enables data manipulation in Python. To start
using functionalities of ‘pandas’ library, you have to import the library using the following code.
>>> import pandas as pd
Now, let’s create / load a data set as a Python DataFrame object, where it can be done in two ways
and it is explained as follows.
Create a DataFrame from scratch and populate with values from data arrays.
Create a DataFrame by loading data from a data file, for example, a .csv file.
Points to Ponder
Remember that ‘pd’ is just an alias for pandas. Aliasing ...
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ISBN: 9789353941505