Introduction to Python

Python is also an open source general-purpose, high-level programming language. This means that it allows you to perform other functions, such as web/mobile/desktop application development along with scientific, mathematical, and statistical programming. Python is very popular among developers and also among the scientific community, such as R for the statistics community. Python is also popular for tasks such as data wrangling or munging, which is loosely the process of manually converting or mapping data from one raw form to another format that allows more convenient consumption of data. For such tasks, the Pandas library in Python is very useful and is used widely. The DataFrame objects comes with the Pandas library ...

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