Lecture 3: Data loading and selection

Lecture 3: Data loading and selection

Learning objectives

  • Introduce matrices.

  • Describe comma-separated-values (csv) file.

  • Demonstrate how you can load a csv file.

  • Introduce the Python data analysis library (pandas) and the concept of a data frames (table).

  • Demonstrate how pandas can load various data files (csv, excel, etc.)

  • Demonstrate how to select columns.

  • Demonstrate how to summarize the data.

  • Demonstrate how to clean the data from any missing values.