In this chapter, we got familiarized with the NumPy and pandas packages. We understood the different datatypes in pandas and how to utilize them. We learned how to perform data cleansing and manipulation, in which we handled missing values and performed string operations. This chapter gives us a foundation for data science and you can dive deeper into NumPy and pandas by clicking on the following links:
NumPy documentation: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/
pandas documentation: http://pandas.pydata.org/
In the next chapter, we'll learn about the meaning of inferential statistics and what they do, and also how to make sense of the different concepts in inferential statistics.