3 A CRASH COURSE IN PANDAS

Dashboard apps are mainly used to visualize data. But before you can do this, you need to preprocess, clean, and analyze the data. To help you accomplish this, Python provides a powerful suite of data analysis modules, including the popular pandas library. The pandas library provides data structures and functionality used to represent and manipulate data. Think of it like an advanced spreadsheet program in your code with extra functionality, including creating spreadsheets, accessing individual rows by name, calculating basic statistics, operating on cells that fulfill a certain condition, and much more.

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