Learning pandas

Primary pandas objects

A programmer of pandas will spend most of their time using two primary objects provided by the pandas framework: Series and DataFrame. The DataFrame objects will be the overall workhorse of pandas and the most frequently used as they provide the means to manipulate tabular and heterogeneous data.

The pandas Series object

The base data structure of pandas is the Series object, which is designed to operate similar to a NumPy array but also adds index capabilities. A simple way to create a Series object is by initializing a Series object with a Python array or Python list.

In [2]:
   # create a four item DataFrame
   s = Series([1, 2, 3, 4])
   s

Out [2]:
   0    1
   1    2
   2    3
   3    4
   dtype: int64

This has created a pandas Series from the ...