Series
Explore the pandas Series object and its key features for handling one-dimensional data. Learn to create Series from lists, NumPy arrays, and dictionaries, customize indices, and perform basic operations. This lesson equips you with practical skills to work efficiently with 1-D data in pandas for data analysis tasks.
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Chapter Goals
- Learn about the pandas Series object and its basic utilities
- Write code to create several Series objects
A. 1-D data
Similar to NumPy, pandas frequently deals with 1-D and 2-D data. However, we use two separate objects to deal with 1-D and 2-D data in pandas. For 1-D data, we use the pandas.Series objects, which we'll refer to simply as a Series.
A Series is created through the pd.Series constructor, which takes in no required arguments but does have a variety of keyword arguments.
The first keyword argument is data, which specifies the elements of the Series. If data ...