Archive for August, 2011
Pandas: Installation
Pandas is available for easy_install or from source (on Github). I provide a quick guide to installation for those who might be new to Python or who want to start tinkering with existing packages. Wes provides more detail in the Pandas documentation, which is the definitive source on this subject. Pandas has a number of [...]
Pandas, but not the furry kind...
Time series analysis is one of the most common aspects of data analysis, especially in economics and finance. A time series is simply a time ordered dataset (where time can in essence be anything), with the added presumption that time bears some importance to the data. Pandas is a python library that greatly improves on [...]