Since many potential pandas users have some familiarity with SQL

pandas consists of the following things A set of labeled array data structures, the primary of which are Series and DataFrame

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

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

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

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

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

We?ll start with a quick, non-comprehensive overview of the fundamental data structures in pandas to get you started. The fundamental behavior about data types, indexing