September 2021
Beginner to intermediate
256 pages
6h 48m
English
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Pandas
To clarify, *add* data.
Edward R. Tufte
In This Chapter
The Pandas DataFrame, which is built on top of the NumPy array, is probably the most commonly used data structure. DataFrames are like supercharged spreadsheets in code. They are one of the primary tools used in data science. This chapter looks at creating DataFrames, manipulating DataFrames, accessing data in DataFrames, and manipulating that data.
About DataFrames
A Pandas DataFrame, like a spreadsheet, is made up of columns and rows. Each column is a pandas.Series object. A DataFrame is, in some ways, similar to a two-dimensional ...