Merging in a DataFrame
Explore how to merge pandas DataFrames through various join operations. Understand merging on single or combined keys and the use of inner, left, right, and outer joins to combine data efficiently.
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The pandas provides a SQL-style join function, merge. It’s a high performance in-memory join operation. If you are familiar with SQL, you probably know that when you join two tables, an on clause is needed.
Two DataFrames would be merged based on some columns with the same value, which must exist in both DataFrames.
The how parameter of merge() specifies how to determine which keys are to be included in the final table. If a key combination does not appear in either the left or right tables, the values in the joined table will ...