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In this section, we will see the merging and how to join data using DataFrame method.
Merging and join data
pandas allows the merging of pandas objects with database-like join operations, using the pd.merge() function and the .merge() method of a DataFrame object. A merge combines the data of two pandas objects by finding matching values in one or more columns or row indexes. It then returns a new object that represents a combination of the data from both, based on relational-database-like join semantics applied to those values.
Merges are useful, as they allow us to model a single DataFrame for each type of data (one of the rules of having tidy data), but to be able to relate data in different DataFrame objects using values ...
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