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Mastering pandas - Second Edition

By : Ashish Kumar
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Mastering pandas - Second Edition

By: Ashish Kumar

Overview of this book

pandas is a popular Python library used by data scientists and analysts worldwide to manipulate and analyze their data. This book presents useful data manipulation techniques in pandas to perform complex data analysis in various domains. An update to our highly successful previous edition with new features, examples, updated code, and more, this book is an in-depth guide to get the most out of pandas for data analysis. Designed for both intermediate users as well as seasoned practitioners, you will learn advanced data manipulation techniques, such as multi-indexing, modifying data structures, and sampling your data, which allow for powerful analysis and help you gain accurate insights from it. With the help of this book, you will apply pandas to different domains, such as Bayesian statistics, predictive analytics, and time series analysis using an example-based approach. And not just that; you will also learn how to prepare powerful, interactive business reports in pandas using the Jupyter notebook. By the end of this book, you will learn how to perform efficient data analysis using pandas on complex data, and become an expert data analyst or data scientist in the process.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Overview of Data Analysis and pandas
4
Section 2: Data Structures and I/O in pandas
7
Section 3: Mastering Different Data Operations in pandas
12
Section 4: Going a Step Beyond with pandas

CSV and TXT

CSV stands for comma-separated values, which means that the comma is the default delimiter for these files. However, they accept other delimiters as well.

CSVs are made of columns and rows and the cell value is arranged in a tabular format. They can come with or without column names and row indices. The primary reasons for a CSV file's existence include manually gathered data, data that's been extracted and downloaded from a database, a direct download from a tool or website, web scraping, and the result of running a data science algorithm.

Reading CSV and TXT files

read_csv is the go-to method for reading CSV files in pandas. It can also be used to read txt files. The syntax of using read_csv is shown...