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Learning pandas - Second Edition

By : Michael Heydt
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Learning pandas - Second Edition

By: Michael Heydt

Overview of this book

You will learn how to use pandas to perform data analysis in Python. You will start with an overview of data analysis and iteratively progress from modeling data, to accessing data from remote sources, performing numeric and statistical analysis, through indexing and performing aggregate analysis, and finally to visualizing statistical data and applying pandas to finance. With the knowledge you gain from this book, you will quickly learn pandas and how it can empower you in the exciting world of data manipulation, analysis and science.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we have examined various techniques of tidying data. We covered identifying missing data, replacing it with other values, or dropping it from the overall set of data. We then covered how to transform values into other values that may be better suited for further analysis.

Now that we have tidied up our data within DataFrame or series, we want to move from focusing on the cleanliness of the data to more elaborate forms of modifying the structure of the data, such as concatenation, merges, joins, and pivoting data. This will be the focus of the next chapter.