An Introduction to pandas

In data science tasks in Python, we often use the pandas library for data manipulation, understanding, and analysis. Here, we give a brief introduction to the fundamentals of pandas before getting into the practice challenges.

The DataFrame data structure

A DataFrame is a 2D table of data with rows and columns, like a spreadsheet. Each column in a DataFrame is a Series, and each row has a unique label known as the index. Let‘s see how we can define a DataFrame using a dictionary.