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Introduction to Series Data Structure in Pandas Library

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Series is one of the fundamental data structures of the Pandas Library which is built on top of  NumPy Library. Series is actually is one dimensional labelled array object similar to list, dict or column of a table. Series object which can hold any data forms (i.e. Python dict, ndarray and scalar values e.g. 5) will assign labelled index to each item in its Series. And by default each item of a  Series will be assigned index labels from 0 to (N-1) , where N is total number of Series items.  How to create a Series data structure? Using Pandas library, we can create Series using the following constructor highlighted below; s = pandas.Series(data, index, dtype) From the above line of code, we used parameters as arguments to Series functions defined below; data may be of any form (i.e. Python dict, ndarray and scalars) that we store it as contents or items of Series index is the list of unique axis labels equal to the length of data. If the index...

How to get started with Python on Windows

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Python programming language, created by  Guido van Rossum  is really a wonderful and powerful language and it is nowadays widely used high-language programming language for general purpose programming. Python does not come up pre-installed with any version of Windows OS as compared to other Operating Systems i.e. Linux and Unix in which python is already installed in it. Using this post of tutorial, you can easily install python on your Windows 10 Operating systems by performing following steps mentioned below: Step 1: Download a recent version of Python Installer First of all you have to download a installer file of python by browsing to webpage  www.python.org  as shown in following snapshot. After browsing to said link, when you hover over  Download  on navigation menu on page as highlighted below, you will be provided two options of two versions of python installers i.e.  3.x.x  and 2.x.x.  In this tutorial you will opt to ...