Pandas for Everyone: Python Data Analysis, First Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction to Data Science: The three people who paved the way for this book were my instructors in the “Introduction to Data Science” course at Columbia—Rachel Schutt, Kayur Patel, and Jared Lander. Without them, I wouldn’t even know what the term “data science” means. I learned so much about the field through their lectures and labs; everything I know and do today can be traced back to this class. The instructors were only part of the learning process. The people in my study group, where we fumbled through our homework assignments and applied our skills to the final project of summarizing scientific articles, made learning the material and passing the class possible. They were Niels Bantilan, Thomas Vo, Vivian Peng, and Sabrina ...