Chapter 1 – Data Handling Using Pandas - I

Prepared by
Sanjay Kumar Parmar
BCA, MSc(IT)
PGT - Computer Science,
Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Sewagram
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REFERENCE - New CBSE Curriculum 2020-2133333.

2021-22
Data Handling using Pandas -I
 Introduction to Python libraries- Pandas, Matplotlib.
 Data structures in Pandas - Series and Data Frames.
 Series: Creation of Series from – ndarray, dictionary, scalar value;
mathematical operations; Head and Tail
 functions; Selection, Indexing and Slicing.
 Data Frames: creation - from dictionary of Series, list of
dictionaries, Text/CSV files; display; iteration;
 Operations on rows and columns: add, select, delete, rename;
Head and Tail functions; Indexing using Labels,
 Boolean Indexing; Joining, Merging and Concatenation.
 Importing/Exporting Data between CSV files and Data Frames.
Introduction to Python libraries- Pandas
 Library for data analysis
 Derived from PANel DAta System
 Become a popular for choice for data analysis
It provides highly optimized performance with
back end source code is purely written in C or
Python
 Makes simple and easy process for data analysis
 Main author of Pandas is Wes McKiney
 Basic Data Structures: Series and Dataframes
Data structures in Pandas

 Data structure refer to special way of storing data to

serve a specific purpose

 Pandas offers two basic data structure –

i. Series ii. Data Frames

 To work with Pandas, import pandas and numpy library

 import pandas as pd

 import numpy as np
Series
 An important data structure of pandas
 Represents one-dimensional array, containing an
array of data of any NumPy data type
 Series has two components:
i. An array ii. An associated array of indexes or data
Creating Series Objects
 It can be created by using pandas Series()
S must
 Creating an empty Series object capital

Syntax: <Series Object> = pandas.Series()

Example:

 An empty series of pandas having default

data type float64
Creating Series Objects
 Creating non-empty Series Syntax: <Series Object> =
pandas.Series(data, index=idx)
Where data can be one of the following: Series with
A python Sequence  An ndarray some values

A dictionary  A scalar value

 Creating Series with Sequence

Creating Series Objects
 Creating Series with ndarray

 Creating Series with dictionary

Creating Series Objects
 Creating Series with scalar value

 Creating Series Objects Adding Functionality

 Specifying/Adding NaN values in a Series
Creating Series Objects
 Specify index as well as data with Series():

 Using a mathematical function

Common Series attributes
Attribute Description
Series.index Retrives index of a series
Series.values Return series as ndarray
Series.dtype Return data type of series
Series.shape Return tuples (no.of rows) of the shape
Series.nbytes Return no. of bytes
Series.ndim Return no. of dimension
Series.size Return no. of elements
Series.hasnans Return true is there are any NaN value else false
Series.empty Return true if the series is empty, else false
Common Series attributes Example
Operations on Series
 Accessing specific Elements

All Elements

 Modifying Elements
Series
objects are
value-
mutable but
size-
immutable
objects.
Extracting Slices from Series
head() Function
 head() Function: fetch first n rows from series
tail() Function
 tail() Function: fetch last n rows from series
If no value provided for n,
then head() and tail() will
return first 5 and last 5 rows
respectively of pandas
object.
Vector & Arithmetic Operations on Series
reindex() and drop() Methods
 Reindex() : Create a similar object but with a different
order of same indexes.

 Drop() : remove any entry from series