Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.4.2 Package overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.4 pandas with Miniconda may be a better solution. Conda is the package manager that the Anaconda distribution is built upon. It is a package manager that is both cross- platform and language agnostic (it found here. Versions 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6 include pandas. Installing using your Linux distribution’s package manager. The commands in this table will install pandas for Python 3 from your distribution. 1

Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.4.2 Package overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.4 pandas with Miniconda may be a better solution. Conda is the package manager that the Anaconda distribution is built upon. It is a package manager that is both cross- platform and language agnostic (it found here. Versions 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6 include pandas. Installing using your Linux distribution’s package manager. The commands in this table will install pandas for Python 3 from your distribution. 1

Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.4.2 Package overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.4 pandas with Miniconda may be a better solution. Conda is the package manager that the Anaconda distribution is built upon. It is a package manager that is both cross- platform and language agnostic (it found here. Versions 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6 include pandas. Installing using your Linux distribution’s package manager. The commands in this table will install pandas for Python 3 from your distribution. 1

Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.4.2 Package overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.4 pandas with Miniconda may be a better solution. Conda is the package manager that the Anaconda distribution is built upon. It is a package manager that is both cross- platform and language agnostic (it found here. Versions 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6 include pandas. Installing using your Linux distribution’s package manager. The commands in this table will install pandas for Python 3 from your distribution. 1

Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.4.2 Package overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.4 pandas with Miniconda may be a better solution. Conda is the package manager that the Anaconda distribution is built upon. It is a package manager that is both cross- platform and language agnostic (it found here. Versions 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6 include pandas. Installing using your Linux distribution’s package manager. The commands in this table will install pandas for Python 3 from your distribution. 1

Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.4.2 Package overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.4 pandas with Miniconda may be a better solution. Conda is the package manager that the Anaconda distribution is built upon. It is a package manager that is both cross-platform and language agnostic (it powerful Python data analysis toolkit, Release 1.3.2 Installing using your Linux distribution’s package manager. The commands in this table will install pandas for Python 3 from your distribution. Distribu-

Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.4.2 Package overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.4 pandas with Miniconda may be a better solution. Conda is the package manager that the Anaconda distribution is built upon. It is a package manager that is both cross-platform and language agnostic (it found here. Versions 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6 include pandas. Installing using your Linux distribution’s package manager. The commands in this table will install pandas for Python 3 from your distribution. Distribu-

Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.4.2 Package overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.4 pandas with Miniconda may be a better solution. Conda is the package manager that the Anaconda distribution is built upon. It is a package manager that is both cross-platform and language agnostic (it found here. Versions 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6 include pandas. Installing using your Linux distribution’s package manager. The commands in this table will install pandas for Python 3 from your distribution. Distribution

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 1.8.1.3 read_csv has improved support for duplicate column names . . . . . . . . . . . 87 1.8.1.4 read_csv supports parsing Categorical directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 2.2.4 Installing using your Linux distribution’s package manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 2.2.5 Installing from source . . . . . . . . . Delete your merged branch (optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422 4 Package overview 423 4.1 Data Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 17 4 Package overview 19 4.1 Data structures at a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . andas Developer Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/pystatsmodels pandas is a Python package providing fast, flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with “relational” you haven’t used NumPy much or at all, do invest some time in learning about NumPy first. See the package overview for more detail about what’s in the library. 2 CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE WHAT’S NEW These