pandas GroupBy: Grouping Real World Data in Python

Whether you’ve just started working with pandas and want to master one of its core capabilities, or you’re looking to fill in some gaps in your understanding about .groupby(), this course will help you to break down and visualize a pandas GroupBy operation from start to finish.

This course is meant to complement the official pandas documentation and the pandas Cookbook, where there are self-contained, bite-sized examples. Here, however, you’ll focus on three more involved walkthroughs that use real-world datasets.

In this course, you’ll cover:

  • How to use pandas GroupBy operations on real-world data
  • How the split-apply-combine chain of operations works
  • How to decompose the split-apply-combine chain into steps
  • How to categorize methods of a pandas GroupBy object based on their intent and result

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