8 First steps with data frames
This chapter covers
- Working with compressed files
- Reading and writing CSV files, Apache Arrow data, and SQLite databases
- Getting columns from a data frame
- Computing summary statistics of data frame contents
- Visualizing data distribution by using histograms
In this chapter, you will learn the basic principles of working with data frames in Julia provided by the DataFrames.jl package. Data frame objects are flexible data structures that allow you to work with tabular data. As I explained in chapter 1, tabular data in general, and a data frame in particular, is a two-dimensional structure consisting of cells. Each row has the same number of cells and provides information about one observation of the data. Each column ...
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