Pandas 101

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If your’e someone who has been programming in python for a while, I assume you may have a good command over the pandas library. For the other half completely new to python, this is probably the first thing you must learn and develop an expertise in!

Pandas is a fast, powerful and easy to use data analysis and manipulation tool built on top of python. In this article, I will try my best to introduce you to pandas and share some interesting things you can do with it (that I recently discovered). If your’e confident you know every basic information about pandas, feel free to jump right to the cool part.

The Basics

Before we get started, I will recommend going through the official pandas documentation which provides a comprehensive guide to every use case in pandas.

NOTE : All the code that I’ve discussed below can be found in my github repository, follow me here for more interesting notebooks and articles.

Installing and Importing Pandas

To install the pandas library, you can use either of these commands depending on where your’e installing it from:

conda install pandas

or

pip install pandas

To import pandas into the python program, we will usually import it with a shorter…