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By Kevin McAleer, 3 Minutes
Welcome to the first lesson of the Data Manipulation with Pandas and NumPy course. This lesson serves as your gateway into the world of data analysis and manipulation in Python. Pandas and NumPy are two of the most popular libraries used in data science and analytics. They provide powerful tools to manipulate, analyze, and visualize data in Python.
Data Manipulation with Pandas and NumPy
Pandas is an open-source library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools. Its main data structure, the DataFrame, allows you to store and manipulate tabular data in rows of observations and columns of variables.
Pandas
The Pandsas Documentation is hosted at https://pandas.pydata.prg.
NumPy, short for Numerical Python, is a foundational package for numerical computing in Python. It provides support for large, multi-dimensional arrays and matrices, along with a collection of mathematical functions to operate on these arrays.
NumPy
We use Numpy to perform mathematical and logical operations on arrays. It is the fundamental package for scientific computing in Python.
For example, let’s create a NumPy array:
import numpy as np arr = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]) print(arr)
Output:
[1 2 3 4 5]
Before diving into the functionalities of Pandas and NumPy, you need to install these libraries. Here’s how you can do it:
pip install pandas numpy
Data Frames are two-dimensional, size-mutable, and potentially heterogeneous tabular data structures with labeled axes (rows and columns). Think of it as a spreadsheet with superpowers.
A Series, in Pandas, is a one-dimensional array-like object that can hold many data types, such as numbers or strings.
To follow along with the examples in this course, you can use the interactive code playground below. Click the Run button to execute the code and see the output.
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This introductory lesson provided a glimpse into what Pandas and NumPy are and their significance in data analysis. In the upcoming lessons, we will delve deeper into these libraries, exploring various functionalities and how they can be applied to real-world data.
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