The only other newer resource that I'd suggest is the book "Pandas for Everyone" by Daniel Chen
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 12:56 PM Oliver Stueker < [email protected]> wrote: > I hope I'm not too late to the party. ;-) > > > The O'Reilly book "Python for Data Analysis" gives really a comprehensive > tour of what one can do with pandas (and an intro to NumPy). > I've enjoyed reading it a lot, but make sure to get the second edition if > you are buying now. > > > The Data Carpentry "Python Ecology" lesson is also a good start. By the > time I worked through (more than a year ago) it was lacking example > solutions and at times I wasn't sure how to solve certain problems. I > believe those have been solved by now. > > > There are also several tutorials in the Pandas Documentation: > http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/tutorials.html > > Cheers, > Oliver > > On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 1:59 PM, Boushey, Geoffrey < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> The O'Reilly book "Python for Data Analysis" has a chapter specifically on >> pandas (and uses pandas in other chapters). >> >> >> +1 for the python ecology lesson (data carpentry), I'd probably start >> there. The O'Reilly book is a good follow up. >> >> >> - Geoff >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Discuss <[email protected]> on behalf >> of Tracy Teal <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 6, 2018 8:39:08 AM >> *To:* Lagesen, Karin >> *Cc:* Software Carpentry Discussion >> *Subject:* Re: [Discuss] looking for good pandas introduction >> >> Hi Karin, >> >> The Data Carpentry Python Ecology lesson teaches pandas, so could be a >> good starting place. >> http://www.datacarpentry.org/python-ecology-lesson/ >> >> Also, Jake VanderPlas' 'Python Data Science Handbook' has a good chapter >> on pandas. >> https://jakevdp.github.io/PythonDataScienceHandbook/ >> >> It would be great to hear if there were other resources people >> recommended. They would also be good recommendations for learners for after >> workshops. There's an issue going to collect ideas. >> https://github.com/carpentries/conversations/issues/18 >> >> Best, >> -Tracy >> >> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 7:29 AM, Lagesen, Karin <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> I'm trying to teach myself pandas at the moment, and I'm looking for good >> (hopefully sort of software carpentry style) tutorials on it. Many of the >> ones I've seen so far are too dense to really understand what's going on >> under the hood, and looking stuff up on the pandas site is not too beginner >> friendly at times. >> >> Karin >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >> <https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=971d8298e95ce956.971da585-def1a0c95753bf1b&u=http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
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