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Pandas Brain Teasers

Explore puzzles designed to enhance your critical thinking and problem-solving skills using pandas. Gain insights into common pitfalls and sharpen your data manipulation techniques.

Intermediate

53 Lessons

1h 20min

Certificate of Completion

Explore puzzles designed to enhance your critical thinking and problem-solving skills using pandas. Gain insights into common pitfalls and sharpen your data manipulation techniques.

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This course includes

43 Playgrounds

25 Quizzes

Course Overview

What You'll Learn

Course Content

Course Overview

Puzzles are a great way to practice your critical thinking and problem-solving skills. This course assumes a basic understanding of pandas. The teasers and puzzles in this course are designed to help you practice what you already know and help avoid future mistakes.

What You'll Learn

Have a deep dive into Python pandas concepts.

Test your knowledge about pandas with the help of riddles.

Learn the inside tricks of pandas with the help of puzzles.

Learn to use pandas in the pythonic style.

Learn the principles of Zen of python for pandas library instructions.

Learn how to avoid common mistakes in pandas.

Have a deep dive into Python pandas concepts.

Course Content

Before We Begin

2 Lessons

Get familiar with common pandas mistakes through engaging brain teasers and practical insights.

Why This Course?

Course Structure

Puzzles

50 Lessons

Solve coding puzzles and explore advanced Pandas functionalities like relational operators, data manipulation, and datetime handling.

Puzzle 1: Rectified

Relational Operators with Pandas Series

Puzzle 2: In or Out?

Access Elements of Pandas Series

Puzzle 3: Month by Month

Read CSV Data into Pandas DataFrames

Puzzle 4: Round and Round We Go

The round() Function with a Pandas Series

Puzzle 5: Who's in Rick's Garage?

The lower() Method with Pandas Series

Puzzle 6: All Full

The all() Method with Pandas Series

Puzzle 7: Div Sum

The sum() Method with Pandas Series

Puzzle 8: Once Upon a Time

Compare naive and tz-aware Values

Puzzle 9: A Hefty Bonus

Add the Values of a Pandas Series

Puzzle 10: Free Range

Relational and Logical Operators with Pandas Series

Puzzle 11: fillna()? Phil? Nah!

fillna() with Pandas Series

Puzzle 12: Multiplying

Multiplying Values of Pandas Series

Puzzle 13: A 10% Discount

Access and Modify DataFrames Values

Puzzle 14: A Tale of One City

Call Functions on Pandas DataFrames Values

Puzzle 15: Free-Range

Print the Length of DataFrames at a Specified Location

Puzzle 16: Y3K

Create a Pandas Timestamp Object

Puzzle 17: Not My Type

Concatenate Values of Two DataFrames

Puzzle 18: Off with Their NaNs

Logical Operators with Pandas Series

Puzzle 19: Holding Out for a Hero

Find Values in a Pandas Series

Puzzle 20: It's a Date!

Create a Pandas Timestamp and date_range Object

Puzzle 21: What's the Points?

Export Pandas DataFrame to CSV Format

Puzzle 22: Quick, Find a Phone Booth!

Merge the Values of Two DataFrames

Puzzle 23: Chain of Commands

Implicit Line Joining

Puzzle 24: Late Addition

Insert Columns into a Pandas DataFrame

Puzzle 25: Hit and Run

Read an SQLite File

Wrapping Up

1 Lessons

Examine your enhanced understanding of pandas, improved through structured brain teasers.

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