Reading and Writing Files With pandas

pandas is a powerful and flexible Python package that allows you to work with labeled and time series data. It also provides statistics methods, enables plotting, and more. One crucial feature of pandas is its ability to write and read Excel, CSV, and many other types of files. Functions like the pandas read_csv() method enable you to work with files effectively. You can use them to save the data and labels from pandas objects to a file and load them later as pandas Series or DataFrame instances.

In this course, you’ll learn:

What the pandas IO tools API is
How to read and write data to and from files
How to use the methods of read_csv()
How to work with various file formats
How to work with big data efficiently

What’s Included:

19 Lessons
Video Subtitles and Full Transcripts
2 Downloadable Resources
Accompanying Text-Based Tutorial
Q&A With Python Experts: Ask a Question
Certificate of Completion

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Related Learning Paths:

Working With Big Data

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