Built-in Functions
Published May 12, 2022
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Pandas provides a wide variety of built-in functions for data access and manipulation. A few of the more significant ones are listed below.
Built-in Functions
- .get_dummies()
- Converts categorical variables to dummy (indicator) variables
- .read_csv()
- Reads a CSV file into a Pandas DataFrame object.
- .read_excel()
- Reads an Excel file into a Pandas DataFrame object.
- .to_datetime()
- Returns a pandas datetime object for a given object, such as a Series or DataFrame
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