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Exercise: Pair Every Fruit With a Veggie

Martin Breuss

Combining Data in pandas With concat() and merge() Martin Breuss 08:00

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Getting Started

Combining Data in pandas with concat() and merge() (Overview) 03:22

Set Up Your Environment 02:49

Create the Dataset 03:09

Combining Data Using concat()

Concatenate Along the Row Axis 03:33

Concatenate Along the Column Axis 05:44

Mark Your DataFrames With Keys 03:33

Access Data in a Multi-Index DataFrame 04:45

Exercise: Stack Harvests With Source Labels 08:00

Re-create a New Index After Concatenation 03:47

Join Columns When Concatenating on Rows 04:45

Exercise: Stack Only Shared Columns 08:00

Join Rows When Concatenating on Columns 02:35

Revisit Combining Data Using concat() 02:32

Combining Data Using merge()

Perform an Inner Join Using merge() 07:00

Perform an Outer Join Using merge() 06:18

Understand the Differences Between Left and Right Joins 07:34

Exercise: Add Colors to the Fruit Basket 08:00

Specify the Join Columns Explicitly 06:07

Join DataFrames Using Index Columns 06:47

Exercise: Look Up Produce Prices 08:00

Customize Column Suffixes and Perform a Cross Join 04:11

Exercise: Pair Every Fruit With a Veggie 08:00

Practice Your Intuition With Some Peculiarities 07:10

Revisit Combining Data Using merge() 03:22

Combining Data in pandas With concat() and merge() (Summary) 04:51

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