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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 examined many of the ways to represent events that occur at specific points in time and how to model these values as they change over time. This involved learning many capabilities of pandas including date and time objects, representation of changes in time with intervals and periods, and performing several types of operations on time series data such as frequency conversion, resampling, and calculating rolling windows.

In the remaining two chapters of this book, we will leave the mechanics of pandas behind and look more into both visualization of data and applying pandas to analysis of financial data.