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Appendix D. Introduction to Pandas

We don’t expect any Pandas knowledge from the readers of this book. However, we use it extensively throughout the book. When we do, we try to explain the code, but it’s not always possible to cover everything in detail.

In this appendix, we give a more in-depth introduction to Pandas, covering all the features we use in the chapters.

D.1 Pandas

Pandas is a Python library for working with tabular data. It’s a popular and convenient tool for data manipulation. It’s especially useful when preparing data for training machine learning models.

If you use Anaconda, it already has Pandas preinstalled. If not, install it with pip:

pip install pandas

To experiment with Pandas, let’s create a notebook called appendix-d-pandas ...