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“Data is the new oil,” the saying goes. Which means that working with data is a key part of the modern economy. But what tools can you use to work with data?
For millions of people, Pandas is the answer: This Python library is built on top of NumPy, meaning that it combines the speed of C with the friendliness of Python. But Pandas goes way beyond NumPy, providing a wide variety of methods that make it easy to read, clean, analyze, plot, and write data in a large number of formats.
This course introduces you to Pandas, and to the many ways you can use it in your day-to-day work. You’ll learn how Pandas works, how to use such techniques as broadcasting and boolean indexing, how to read data from a variety of formats and then how to clean that data once you’ve read it into memory. And you’ll see how Pandas works not only with numbers, but also with text — allowing for all sorts of interesting analysis.
This is the same course that I give at Fortune 500 companies around the world, including a large number of exercises and the Jupyter notebooks I used when preparing the course.
If the world of data analysis interests you, then this course will get you going in relatively short order.
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Reuven is a full-time Python trainer. In a given year, he teaches courses at companies in the United States, Europe, Israel, India, and China — as well as to people around the world, via his online courses.
Reuven created one of the first 100 Web sites in the world just after graduating from MIT’s computer science department. He opened Lerner Consulting in 1995, and has been offering training services since 1996.
In 2020, Reuven published “Python Workout,” a collection of Python exercises with extensive explanations, published by Manning. He’s currently finishing edits on “Pandas Workout,” a similar collection of exercises using the “Pandas” library for data analytics.
Reuven’s free, weekly “Better developers” newsletter, about Python and software engineering, is read by more than 30,000 developers around the globe. His “Trainer weekly” newsletter is popular among people who give corporate training.
Reuven’s most recent venture is Bamboo Weekly: Every Wednesday, he presents a problem based on current events, using a public data set. And every Thursday, he shared detailed solutions to those problems using Pandas.
Reuven’s monthly column appeared in Linux Journal from 1996 until the magazine’s demise in 2019. He was also a panelist on both the Business of Freelancing and Freelancers Show podcasts.
Reuven has a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from MIT, and a PhD in learning sciences from Northwestern University. He lives in Modi’in, Israel with his wife and three children.
I send a full-length Python article to more than 30,000 people each week — on topics ranging from iterators to descriptors, variable assignment to sets, exceptions to command-line arguments. Join me, and get smarter about Python each week!