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Intro to Pandas

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By Marc Garcia - https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/master/web/pandas/static/img/pandas.svg, BSD, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73107397 Pandas is a Python Library used to store and manipulate tabular data. This is an essential library that we'll use in the future (and quite frequently so) to manipulate our data for predictions, classifications and what not. So, without further ado, let's jump right into it. Let us first download our data, that we will use to practice all the features and functions of library. Go to https://www.kaggle.com/sohier/calcofi    It should direct you to this page: Click on the "Download" button right beside the "New Notebook". It'll download a zipped file. (Save the zipped file somewhere in the C drive)  Extract that to your desired folder (Also, somewhere in C drive). I put the folder here : Now open "Anaconda Navigator" and download pandas packag