Week 05

From Nested lists to Dataframes: Numpy and Intro to Pandas

Lectures Notes:

Today, we will go over three notebooks:

• Data as Nested lists - html – Jupyter Notebook

• Numpy: html – Jupyter Notebook

• Intro do Pandas: html – Jupyter Notebook

Datasets

Download the datasets here

Slides

• Numpy and Intro do Pandas

Readings

• Suggested Reading for Numpy

• PDS VanderPlas

  • Ch. 2: Introduction to Numpy - Python Data Science Handbook - VanderPlas, Jake

Suggested Readings for Pandas

• PDS VanderPlas

• Ch. 4: Data Manipulation with Pandas

• Tidy Data in Python

• Tidy Data by Hadley Wickham in R

And all our lecture notes!

• Additional Resources and Suggested Materials

  • Python Pandas Tutorial: A Complete Introduction for Beginners

  • Data Wrangling with Pandas Cheat Sheet - pandas.pydata.org

  • dplyr-style Data Manipulation with Pipes in Python - Allen, Akinkunle

  • Python Pandas vs. R Dplyr - The Full Cheatsheet - Martin Šiklar

  • Methods Chaining in Pandas

• Exercises in Pandas