Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas

Bringing data into a pandas DataFrame

Now that we understand the data structures we will be working with, we can focus on different ways we can create them. To do so, let's turn to the next notebook, 2-creating_dataframes.ipynb, and import the packages we will need for the upcoming examples. We will be using datetime from the Python standard library, along with the third-party packages numpy and pandas. We are only aliasing numpy and pandas, but feel free to alias datetime if you are accustomed to doing so:

>>> import datetime>>> import numpy as np>>> import pandas as pd

This allows us to use the pandas package by referring to it with the alias we assign to be pd, which is the common way to import it. In fact, we can only refer to it as ...