contents

 

  

front matter

preface

acknowledgments

about this book

about the author

about the cover illustration

  

Part 1.   Core pandas

  1   Introducing pandas

  1.1  Data in the 21st century

  1.2  Introducing pandas

Pandas vs. graphical spreadsheet applications

Pandas vs. its competitors

  1.3  A tour of pandas

Importing a data set

Manipulating a DataFrame

Counting values in a Series

Filtering a column by one or more criteria

Grouping data

  2   The Series object

  2.1  Overview of a Series

Classes and instances

Populating the Series with values

Customizing the Series index

Creating a Series with missing values

  2.2  Creating a Series from Python objects

  2.3  Series attributes

  2.4  Retrieving the first and last rows

  2.5  Mathematical operations

Arithmetic operations