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Pandas is an open-source Python library designed for data analysis, providing data structures like Series and DataFrames for handling structured and time series data. It offers efficient data manipulation, flexible input/output options, and features for accessing and modifying data. Key functionalities include handling missing data, Boolean indexing, and various methods for creating and deleting columns in DataFrames.

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Pandas-A-Powerful-Data-Analysis-Tool

Pandas is an open-source Python library designed for data analysis, providing data structures like Series and DataFrames for handling structured and time series data. It offers efficient data manipulation, flexible input/output options, and features for accessing and modifying data. Key functionalities include handling missing data, Boolean indexing, and various methods for creating and deleting columns in DataFrames.

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Pandas: A

Powerful Data
Analysis Tool
Pandas is a powerful open-source Python library that provides easy-to-use
data structures and data analysis tools for working with structured (tabular,
multidimensional, potentially heterogeneous) and time series data. It is widely
used by data scientists and analysts for its ability to handle missing data,
provide efficient data manipulation and slicing, and enable flexible merging,
concatenation, and reshaping of data.

by Ranga Chary DPS Secunderabad


Key Features of Pandas

1 Series 2 DataFrame
A one-dimensional array-like structure with a labeled A two-dimensional table-like data structure with rows
index, allowing for fast data access and manipulation. and columns, similar to a spreadsheet or SQL table.

3 Efficient Data Handling 4 Flexible Data Input/Output


Pandas provides powerful tools for handling missing Pandas can read and write data in various formats,
data, slicing and dicing data, and performing complex including CSV, Excel, SQL databases, and more.
data transformations.
Creating DataFrames
From Series From Dictionaries From Lists of
Dictionaries
DataFrames can be created directly DataFrames can be created from
from Pandas Series, with the Series dictionaries, where the keys become DataFrames can also be created from
becoming the column of the the column names and the values a list of dictionaries, where each
DataFrame. become the column data. dictionary represents a row in the
DataFrame.
Accessing and Manipulating
DataFrames
1 Selecting Columns
Access individual columns using column names as attributes or in square brackets.

2 Selecting Rows
Use the .loc[] and .iloc[] methods to select rows based on labels or integer
positions, respectively.

3 Adding and Renaming Columns


Add new columns or rename existing ones using assignment or the .assign()
method.
Deleting Columns in
DataFrames
Using del Using pop()
Delete a column by directly using the del Delete a column by calling the pop()
keyword and specifying the column name. method and passing the column name as
an argument.

Using drop()
Delete one or more columns using the drop() method and specifying the column names in a
list.
Accessing Data with loc() and iloc()

loc() iloc()
Access data using labels (column and row names). Access data using integer-based (position-based) indexing.
Exploring DataFrames with
head() and tail()
head()
1 Return the first n rows of the DataFrame (default is 5).

tail()
2 Return the last n rows of the DataFrame (default is 5).

Slicing
3 Access a range of rows using standard Python slicing notation.
Boolean Indexing in DataFrames
Boolean Indexing Allows you to select data from DataFrames using a
boolean vector.

Flexibility Enables complex filtering and selection of data based on


conditions.

Efficient Data Manipulation Helps you quickly extract relevant subsets of data for
analysis.

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