Lesson Overview

In this lesson we will learn about another useful python module: Pandas. Pandas gives us access to a few new tools that make reading, manipulating, understanding, and writing data much easier and more efficient.

The focus of this lesson is on:

1. An introduction to Pandas and the Series and DataFrame data types

2. How to use Data Frames to do basic tasks with your data

Learning Goals

After this week, you should be able to

• import Pandas, instantiate and populate a pandas Series and/or DataFrame.

• understand the basic mechanics of these two new data types

• understand the difference between the “index”, “value”, “position” concepts.

• read a csv data file using pandas tools

• perform basic statistical operations on and sort a data frame.