CHAPTER 5
pandas: Reading and Writing Data
In the previous chapter, you got familiar with the pandas library and with all the basic functionalities that it provides for the data analysis. You have seen that DataFrame and Series are the heart of this library. These are the material on which to perform all manipulations of data, calculations, and analysis.
In this chapter you will see all of the tools provided by pandas for reading data stored in many types of media (such as files and databases). In parallel, you will also see how to write data structures directly on these formats, without worrying too much about the technologies used.
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