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Python for Finance, 3rd Edition
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Python for Finance, 3rd Edition

by Yves Hilpisch
March 2027
Intermediate
750 pages
14h 17m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 6. Data Analysis with pandas

Data! Data! Data! I can’t make bricks without clay!

Sherlock Holmes

pandas builds on NumPy to provide labeled, table-like data structures that make real-world financial datasets easier to explore, clean, and analyze. This chapter introduces Series and DataFrame objects, shows how to work with time-indexed data, and prepares you for later chapters on time series, I/O, and asset management.

The chapter shows how to represent financial data as pandas Series and DataFrame objects, select and filter rows and columns, handle missing values, and compute common aggregates and returns. It also shows how to read simple comma-separated value (CSV) files, work with time-indexed data, and convert back and forth between pandas and NumPy.

To follow along, you need a working python 3.11+ interpreter with pandas and numpy installed (see Chapter 3), comfort with Python containers and control flow from Chapter 4, and basic familiarity with NumPy arrays from Chapter 5.

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