Learning pandas

Summary

We have reached the end of our journey in learning about pandas and the features it offers for data manipulation. Prior to this chapter, we spent our time mostly learning the features, most of the time using data designed to demonstrate the concepts instead of using real-world data.

In this chapter, we used everything that we learned up to this point to demonstrate how easy it is to use pandas to analyze real-world data—specifically, stock data—and derive results from the data, and in many cases, make quick conclusions through visualizations designed to make the patterns in the data apparent.

This chapter also introduced a number of financial concepts, such as the daily percentage change, calculating returns, and the correlation of time-series ...