Pandas is an amazing library, so amazing that there are numerous books out there on it, some of which I am happy to say I own. There are so many things that you can do with python that I am not really sure where to start with a series of posts on it.
I guess the key place to start is with a pandas dataframe. I guess the easiest way to describe a basic dataframe is as an excel like grid. There are many ways to set up a dataframe, in my example I have chosen to read a csv file. This is a basic csv file that looks like this...
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| CSV screenshot |
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| dataframe head screenshot |
So in a few lines of code we have imported a file and shown that it looks as we would expect, note you can use the head and tail functions to show the top n and bottom n rows. I have also included in the code a few examples of other basic things I have done in a dataframe
- Rename columns
- Drop Columns
- Get Unique values
There are so many other things I could show but the post would become huge so I will tackle them on a more logical basis.
The code:
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