A comprehensive guide to mastering Pandas, the essential Python library for data manipulation and analysis.
📚 Course Overview
Pandas is a powerful tool for working with structured data. This course covers:
- Data structures: Series and DataFrame
- Data cleaning: Handling missing values and duplicates
- Data analysis: Aggregation, filtering, and transformation
- Data visualization: Integrating with Matplotlib and Seaborn
🔍 Core Concepts
- DataFrame creation: Using
pd.read_csv()
orpd.DataFrame()
- Indexing:
.loc[]
,.iloc[]
, and.at[]
- Operations:
.head()
,.tail()
,.describe()
,.info()
- File I/O: Reading and writing CSV, Excel, and SQL files
🧱 Hands-on Practice
- Exercise 1: Load a dataset and explore its structure
- Exercise 2: Clean and preprocess data using Pandas
- Exercise 3: Perform groupby operations and visualization
🚀 Advanced Topics
- Time series analysis: Resampling and shifting data
- Merge and concatenate: Combining datasets with
.merge()
or.concat()
- Performance optimization: Using
categorical
data types andapply()
📚 Expand Reading
For deeper insights into Python fundamentals, check out our Python基础 course.