Pandas Tutorial

Pandas is data analysis tool for python. Pandas operates on Dataframes, which are 2D tables that can be imported and exported to various formats such as CSV, Excel spreadsheets, SQL or high performant file formats such as HDF5.

This tutorial is aimed at people who have prior experience with programming, not necessarily python. This tutorial will walk through basic of python programming before the introduction of Pandas.

Installation

To keep the environment uniform across all participants, this tutorial will use Anaconda distribution of python which can be downloaded here. Please download python 2.7 for your OS. After installing, find the Spyder editor shipped with Anaconda.

Using this project folder

This project folder has two folders:

1. Raw python code

• IPython notebooks with annotations corresponding to python code

Index

1. Introduction to Python

• Hello World!
• Basic function
• Control structures
• Data types and data structures

2. Introduction to Numpy
3. Introduction to Matplotlib
4. Pandas