Python pandas - Data Exploration the Python Way
by Neal Thomison, Owner and Consultant, Bangtree & Associates
Neal ThomisonPowerful tools can make the difference between an effort's success or failure. And when that effort involves data exploration and analysis is nice to have pandas in your toolkit! pandas provides high-level data analysis tooling that is both flexible and performant. Leveraging Python and the Python ecosystem, pandas allows you to work efficiently with series and tabular data in a way your already use to: the Python way. This talk will provide an introduction to the concepts behind pandas and then use some real-world data to illustrate how you use it. These concepts will include: how to handle missing values; data indexing and slicing; how to aggregate and align data; the practical matters around reading and saving data; and handling time-series.