This is a short introduction to pandas, geared mainly for new users. You can see more complex recipes in the

Since many potential pandas users have some familiarity with SQL

Here we discuss a lot of the essential functionality common to the pandas data structures. Here?s how to create some of the objects used in the examples from the

By ?group by? we are referring to a process involving one or more of the following steps Splitting the data into groups

For potential users coming from SAS this page is meant

Note The SparsePanel class has been removed in 0.19.0 We have

The easiest way for the majority of users to install pandas is to install it as part of the

The axis labeling information in pandas objects serves many purposes: Identifies data (i.e. provides metadata) using known indicators

Using If/Truth Statements with pandas pandas follows the numpy convention of raising an error when you try to convert something to a bool

DataFrame memory usage As of pandas version 0.15.0, the memory usage of a dataframe (including the index) is shown when accessing