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Pandas Notes

Pandas is a Python library designed for data manipulation and analysis, created by Wes McKinney in 2008. It provides functions for cleaning, exploring, and analyzing data, making it essential for data science. Installation is straightforward with Python and PIP, and it is commonly imported using the alias 'pd'.

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Pandas Notes

Pandas is a Python library designed for data manipulation and analysis, created by Wes McKinney in 2008. It provides functions for cleaning, exploring, and analyzing data, making it essential for data science. Installation is straightforward with Python and PIP, and it is commonly imported using the alias 'pd'.

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What is Pandas?

Pandas is a Python library used for working with data sets.

It has functions for analyzing, cleaning, exploring, and manipulating data.

The name "Pandas" has a reference to both "Panel Data", and "Python Data
Analysis" and was created by Wes McKinney in 2008.

Why Use Pandas?


Pandas allows us to analyze big data and make conclusions based on statistical
theories.

Pandas can clean messy data sets, and make them readable and relevant.

Relevant data is very important in data science.

Data Science: is a branch of computer science where we study how to store,


use and analyze data for deriving information from it.

What Can Pandas Do?


Pandas gives you answers about the data. Like:

 Is there a correlation between two or more columns?


 What is average value?
 Max value?
 Min value?

Pandas are also able to delete rows that are not relevant, or contains wrong
values, like empty or NULL values. This is called cleaning the data.

Installation of Pandas
If you have Python and PIP already installed on a system, then installation of
Pandas is very easy.

Install it using this command:

C:\Users\Your Name>pip install pandas

If this command fails, then use a python distribution that already has Pandas
installed like, Anaconda, Spyder etc.
Import Pandas
Once Pandas is installed, import it in your applications by adding
the import keyword:

import pandas

Now Pandas is imported and ready to use.

Pandas as pd
Pandas is usually imported under the pd alias.

alias: In Python alias are an alternate name for referring to the same thing.

Create an alias with the as keyword while importing:

import pandas as pd

Now the Pandas package can be referred to as pd instead of pandas.

Checking Pandas Version


The version string is stored under __version__ attribute.

Example
import pandas as pd

print(pd.__version__)

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