As part of the first annual NGCM Summer Academy, Chris Fonnesbeck of Vanderbilt University and Skipper Seabold of Civis Analytics delivered a two-day training course on the Pandas data analysis library for the Python programming language. Pandas is a Python package designed to handle tabular, matrix and time series data, providing structures and methods which make data analysis faster and more straightforward.
Participants were introduced to data handling and organisation techniques, plotting and visualisation tools, and techniques for statistical modelling in Pandas. Particular focus was given to handling missing data, a common issue in real-world data analysis problems. A more detailed description of the material covered is available through GitHub.
Posted by Stephen Gow