If you want to analyze data in Python, you'll want to become familiar with pandas, as it makes data analysis so much easier. The DataFrame is the primary data format you'll interact with. Here's how ...
In December 2019 my InfoWorld colleague Sharon Machlis wrote an article called “How to merge data in R using R merge, dplyr, or data.table.” Sharon is a whiz at R programming, and analytics in general ...
When it comes to working with data in a tabular form, most people reach for a spreadsheet. That’s not a bad choice: Microsoft Excel and similar programs are familiar and loaded with functionality for ...
What first interested you in data analysis, Python and pandas? I started my career working in ad tech, where I had access to log-level data from the ads that were being served, and I learned R to ...
This story contains interviews with Facebook engineering manager Burc Arpat, AppNexus ad-quality engineering director Dave Himrod, and Pandas creator Wes McKinney and Pandas developer Jeff Reback. But ...