1 Processing Tabular Data with pandas
The pandas
package makes it easy to work with CSV formatted (i.e. "tabular") data, by providing us with two new datatypes, called the DataFrame
and the Series
.
The pandas DataFrame
datatype represents tabular data (with rows and columns). Whereas the pandas Series
datatype represents a single row or single column in the dataset.
Let’s explore some common and practical ways of working with these objects.