Tools 2.1Lesson outlineLesson 1 of 7 in Module 2
Meet pandas
Say what a DataFrame is and why tabular data gets its own library, by loading one real file and asking it a question.
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Lesson outline: Meet pandas
In this lesson13 parts
- 01Three questions about one file
- 02Reading the file with csv.reader
- 03float, and the comma that stops it
- 04Two more passes for the other two answers
- 05read_csv, in one line
- 06The DataFrame, and why a table is not an array
- 07head and describe
- 08One column is a Series
- 09max on a text column
- 10A condition is a mask, and value_counts
- 11The three answers, and the duplicated row
- 12Five things still wrong, and who repairs each
- 13Recap and your challenge
Builds on
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Quiz: Meet pandas
Your first pick on each question is the one that counts. Getting one wrong here is how the lesson sticks.