Pandas 101 (Introduction)
What is Pandas? Pandas is a software library written for the Python programming language for data manipulation and analysis . In particular, it offers data structures and operations for manipulating numerical tables and time series . It is free software released under the three-clause BSD license . The name is derived from the term " panel data ", an econometrics term for data sets that include observations over multiple time periods for the same individuals. Its name is a play on the phrase "Python data analysis" itself. Wes McKinney started building what would become pandas at AQR Capital while he was a researcher there from 2007 to 2010. Library Highlights A fast and efficient DataFrame object for data manipulation with integrated indexing; Tools for reading and writing data between in-memory data structures and different formats: CSV and text files, Microsoft Excel, SQL databases, and the fast HDF5 format; Intelligent data alignm