Pandas Workout (MEAP)

Practice makes perfect pandas. Work out your pandas skills against dozens of real-world challenges, each carefully designed to build an intuitive knowledge of essential pandas tasks.

In Pandas Workout you’ll learn how to:

Clean your data for accurate analysis
Work with rows and columns for retrieving and assigning data
Handle indexes, including hierarchical indexes
Read and write data with a number of common formats, such as CSV and JSON
Process and manipulate textual data from within pandas
Work with dates and times in pandas
Perform aggregate calculations on selected subsets of data
Produce attractive and useful visualizations that make your data come alive


Discover 50 exercises that will strengthen your pandas skills to a level of automatic fluency. You’ll test yourself against common pandas challenges such as data cleaning, and explore real-world datasets such as New York Taxis, Kickstarter projects, and global tourist spending. Detailed explanations help guide your success and make your new skills stick. You’ll even get a big boost to productivity, with tasks that used to mean a trip to StackOverflow now a natural part of your skillset.
about the technology
Mastering pandas means working out your new skills until they become like reflexes. This book gives you lots of pandas practice by working through the kind of scenarios you’ll face in the real world. Whether you’re a data scientist or a programmer handling large quantities of data, you’ll soon overcome pandas’s learning curve and start solving complex problems in less time.