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Jul
12
2018

Python: Pandas

When: Thursday, July 12, 2018
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT

Where: Ward Building, Galter Health Sciences Library, Large Classroom, 303 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: $10

Contact: Christina Maimone  

Group: Northwestern Information Technology

Category: Training

Description:

Do you work with data of different types (numerical, categorical, text, dates)? Does your data have labelled variables or observations? Pandas DataFrames are the way to work with mixed and labeled data in Python. Pandas, the Python data analysis library, lets you perform common data analysis tasks such as subsetting and aggregating data, creating new variables, recoding data, computing summary statistics, and visualizing your data.
Things you’ll learn in this workshop:

Importing data into a pandas DataFrame
Subsetting and manipulating data sets
Grouping and aggregating data
Computing summary measures
Basic plotting
Merging DataFrames
Indices and hierarchical indices
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Python and Jupyter Notebooks

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