Data with Python

You can do all kinds of data processing with Python, including web scraping, read text files, reading csv files.

Pandas is a module you can use for that, it has all kinds of data processing functionality: data structures for data analysis, time series,and statistics

So why pandas ?

• Easy loading & saving data
• Column insertion & deletion
• Data selection
• Column & row renaming
• Row deletion
• Data sorting
• handling missing value
• handling duplicates
• Data exploration
• Data visualization

But pandas isn't the only module to work with data, you may be familiar with web scraping (beautifulsoup) or databases (sql).

So what can you do with Python and data?

Parse Files

You can processing many types of files including:

• Reading dat files
• Reading Excel
• Writing Excel
• Reading CSV files (pandas optional)

Web data (scraping, databases, api)

Web scraping and web data:

• Parsing json
• Python API tutorial
• Web scraping
• SQL with Python

Of course there is much more you can do with Python and data, these are just some examples.