Idiomatic Pandas: Tricks & Features You May Not Know

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

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

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