pytutorial/pandas/basics

Pandas

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The goal

Questions to David Rotermund

pip install pandas

Pandas

The two most important data types of Pandas are:​

• Series​
• Data Frames

“Pandas is a fast, powerful, flexible and easy to use open source data analysis and manipulation tool, built on top of the Python programming language.”​

It is the basis for:

• scipy.stats​

This module contains a large number of probability distributions, summary and frequency statistics, correlation functions and statistical tests, masked statistics, kernel density estimation, quasi-Monte Carlo functionality, and more.

• Pingouin

Pingouin is an open-source statistical package written in Python 3 and based mostly on Pandas and NumPy.

• rPy2

rpy2 is an interface to R running embedded in a Python process.

Pandas.Series​

class pandas.Series(data=None, index=None, dtype=None, name=None, copy=None, fastpath=False)

One-dimensional ndarray with axis labels (including time series).

Labels need not be unique but must be a hashable type. The object supports both integer- and label-based indexing and provides a host of methods for performing operations involving the index. Statistical methods from ndarray have been overridden to automatically exclude missing data (currently represented as NaN).

Operations between Series (+, -, /, *, **) align values based on their associated index values– they need not be the same length. The result index will be the sorted union of the two indexes.

Examples:

import pandas as pd

example = pd.Series(["Bambu", "Tree", "Sleep"])
print(example)

Output:

0    Bambu
1     Tree
2    Sleep
dtype: object

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

example = pd.Series([99, 88, 32])
print(example)

Output:

0    99
1    88
2    32
dtype: int64

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

rng = np.random.default_rng()
a = rng.random((5))

example = pd.Series(a)
print(example)

Output:

0    0.305920
1    0.633360
2    0.219094
3    0.005722
4    0.006673
dtype: float64

import pandas as pd

example = pd.Series(["Bambu", 3, "Sleep"])
print(example)

Output:

0    Bambu
1        3
2    Sleep
dtype: object