Pandas Introduction - chrisbitm/python GitHub Wiki

Pandas is an Open-Source Data Analysis and Manipulation Library for Python. It provides powerful Data Structures, such as Series (one-dimensional) and DataFrame (two-dimensional), which make working with Structured Data easier.

Key Features of Pandas:

  • DataFrame & Series: Offers flexible data structures to store and manipulate labeled data.
  • Data Cleaning: Handles missing data, duplicates, and data transformation.
  • Data Aggregation & Grouping: Provides powerful groupby() functionality for summarizing data.
  • Indexing & Slicing: Allows efficient data selection and filtering.
  • Integration: Works well with NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, and other libraries.
  • I/O Operations: Supports reading/writing data from CSV, Excel, SQL, JSON, and more