CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION TO PANDAS
This chapter introduces you to Pandas and provides code samples that illustrate some of its useful features. If you are familiar with these topics, skim through the material and peruse the code samples, just in case they contain information that is new to you.
The first part contains a brief introduction to Pandas. This section contains code samples that illustrate some features of Pandas DataFrames and a brief discussion of series, which are two of the main features of Pandas.
The second part of this chapter discusses various types of data frames that you can create, such as numeric and Boolean data frames. In addition, we discuss examples of creating data frames with NumPy functions and random numbers.
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