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