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Dr. Ossama EmbarakData Analysis and Visualization Using Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4109-7_3

3. Data Collection Structures

Ossama Embarak1 
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Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
 

Lists, dictionaries, tuples, series, data frames, and panels are Python data collection structures that can be used to maintain a collection of data. This chapter will demonstrate these various structures in detail with practical examples.

Lists

A list is a sequence of values of any data type that can be accessed forward or backward. Each value is called an element or a list item. Lists are mutable, which means that you won’t create a new list when you modify a list element. Elements are stored in the given ...

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