Lesson overview
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In this lesson we will learn the basics of reading and writing data from/to a file, and to do some basic data manipulation and analysis.
We will start using `pandas `__, which is a modern and feature-rich data analysis framework for
Python designed to make data analysis and manipulation straightforward and powerful using easy-to-use data structures and operations.
The main components of today's lesson can be found in the navigation bar to the left.
Learning goals
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After this weeks lesson your should be able to:
- Read and explore tabular data in Python (using the pandas library)
- Do simple data analysis using pandas data structures and functions
- Write data to a .csv text file
Lesson videos
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.. admonition:: Lesson 5.1 - Exploring data using pandas
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