Data Management HEC Liège — ECON2206

Module 3: Pandas

Resources

Organisation

  • Hour 1: the basics (concepts 1-4) and the first exercises
  • Hour 2: slicing, renaming, summarising (concepts 5-7) and further exercises
  • Hour 3: operations with datasets, rules for data management (concepts 8-9) and remaining exercises

Concepts

  1. What is modern Pandas?
  2. Anatomy of a DataFrame: column names and index
  3. Data types in Pandas
  4. Loading and saving data
  5. Renaming columns, setting indices
  6. Selection of rows and columns
  7. Inspecting and summarising data
  8. Concatenations and merge
  9. Rules for data management

Learning objectives

After this lesson, you should be able to:

Methods

  • Create, save and manipulate DataFrames
  • Organize your workflow, abiding by the rules of data management

Personal

  • Being confident in managing data in Python
  • Not being discouraged by seeing errors you do not understand immediately

Social

  • Jointly fixing errors with your peers

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