Session 4 (Pandas)

Aims / Outcomes / Expectations of Workshop:

  1. Understand the structure of pd.Series and pd.DataFrame

  2. Able to use the basic functionality of pd.DataFrame

  3. Learn best pratcies for cleaning and organizing data

We will also take advantage of a new package that was built to facilitate downloading data for the QuantEcon Data Science lectures. You can install this package by running,

pip install qeds

There are a few notebooks that we were not able to include because of time constraints. If you are interested, you could review:

Week 1, Session 4 (Monday 23rd March)

Time

Topic

13:00 - 13:20

Pandas Introduction

13:20 - 14:00

Pandas Basics

14:00 - 14:30

Pandas Index

14:30 - 14:45

Q&A / Exercises / Break

14:45 - 15:15

Pandas Cleaning

15:15 - 16:00

Pandas Reshape

16:00 - 16:30

Q&A / Review notebooks we didn’t have time for