This course will focus on skills needed to clean data using pandas DataFrames in Python. You’ll follow Abby the marketing analyst while she explores customer data as she gets ready for a marketing campaign for her company, MadeUp Inc. In this course, Create and Alter DataFrame Indexes, you’ll gain the ability to reference data in a pandas DataFrame using indexes, which is useful when you’re trying to access or filter data in a DataFrame for data exploration and cleansing. First, you’ll explore pandas DataFrames and indexes. Next, you’ll discover how to create and recreate indexes on DataFrames. Then, you’ll see how to access rows of a DataFrame with different syntaxes. Finally, you’ll learn how to filter DataFrames for rows that match or contain certain string values. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of creating and altering DataFrame indexes needed to access and filter data in DataFrames for data exploration and cleansing.
Author Name: Matt Stenzel
Author Description:
Matt Stenzel is a Data and AI Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. He has 15+ years of experience in the data and analytics industry working in various roles including a software developer, data engineer, DW developer, DBA and integration architect. He has spent the last 8 years working at Microsoft helping companies across the US successfully implement Azure solutions that provide business value.