Lesson overview¶
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¶
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¶
Lesson 5.1 - Exploring data using pandas
Dave Whipp & Håvard Aagesen, University of Helsinki @ Geo-Python channel on Youtube.
Lesson 5.2 - Processing data using pandas
Dave Whipp & Håvard Aagesen, University of Helsinki @ Geo-Python channel on Youtube.