Pandas Index¶

This notebook introduces the concept of an index

Understand how the index is used to align data
Know how to set and reset the index
Understand how to select subsets of data by slicing on index and columns
Understand that for DataFrames, the column names also align data

Lecture Resource

Here is the QuantEcon DataScience pandas index lecture

We will work through the following notebook.

Local Option¶

You can download the notebook from here

Then browse to your download location and load jupyter:

cd ~/Downloads
jupyter notebook pandas-index.ipynb

Cloud Based Option¶

You can launch the notebook

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