How to use Pandas

I am writing this post as a cheat sheet for using the python package "Pandas".

Importing Pandas:

import pandas as pd

Reading from a CSV:

dataframe = pd.read_csv('relative_path_to_your_file')

Look at first three rows:

dataframe[:3]

Selecting a column:

dataframe['column name']

Plotting a column by name:

dataframe['column name'].plot()

Plotting all columns:

dataframe.plot()

Conclusion

As you can see, pandas is a very powerful library for working with data sets. It allows us to reformat the data, and chose how we want it to be displayed to gain insights into our datasets.