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Pandas Cookbook - Third Edition
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Pandas Cookbook - Third Edition

by William Ayd, Matthew Harrison
October 2024
Beginner to intermediate
404 pages
8h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Pandas Cookbook - Third Edition

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Algorithms and How to Apply Them

In this book, we have already looked at a variety of ways to create pandas data structures and select/assign data within them and have subsequently seen how to store those structures in common formats. These features alone can make pandas a powerful tool in the realm of data exchange, but we are still just scratching the surface of what pandas can offer.

A core component of data analysis and computing in general is the application of algorithms, which describe a sequence of steps the computer should take to process data. In their simplistic form, common data algorithms build upon basic arithmetic (for example, “sum this column”), but scale out to any sequence of steps that you may need for your custom calculations. ...

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