Pandas Tricks

Idiomatic Pandas: Tricks & Features You May Not Know

Joe Tatusko

Joe Tatusko 11 Lessons 47m
data-science intermediate

Pandas is a foundational library for analytics, data processing, and data science. It’s a huge project with tons of optionality and depth.

In this course you’ll see how to use some lesser-used but idiomatic Pandas capabilities that lend your code better readability, versatility, and speed.

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Pandas Tricks & Features You May Not Know

11 Lessons 47m

1. Pandas Tricks: Course Overview (01:29)

2. Configure Options and Settings at Interpreter Startup (07:11)

3. Make Toy Data Structures With Pandas' Testing Module (03:07)

4. Take Advantage of Accessor Methods (05:51)

5. Create a DatetimeIndex from Component Columns (04:14)

6. Use Categorical data to Save Time and Space (05:39)

7. Introspect Groupby Objects via Iteration (05:35)

8. Mapping Trick for Membership Binning (04:10)

9. How Pandas Uses Boolean Operators (05:54)

10. Load Data From the Clipboard (02:16)

11. Write Pandas Objects Directly to Compressed Formats (02:29)

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About Joe Tatusko

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Joe is a manufacturing engineer turned Pythonista with interests in data wrangling and visualization.

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Participant Comments

andrewcheryl on April 12, 2019

Awesome course - full of really useful tips. Thankyou !

senatoduro8 on July 17, 2019

I love the clipboard trick. It’s my favorite so far and it allow me to copy data from the “supporting material” page and get working with without having to save it first as file because it’s a throw away file anyway.

Thanks for the tutorial

Pygator on Nov. 28, 2019

Finally finished, I had forgotten about this course, but more videos from you on Core Pandas datastructures would be nice. Great tips. Also, you sound like the lead actor in Boyhood; I recently watched that movie.

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