Lecture 3: Data loading and selection
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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.