When it comes to working with data in a tabular form, most people reach for a spreadsheet. That’s not a bad choice: Microsoft Excel and similar programs are familiar and loaded with ...

In December 2019 my InfoWorld colleague Sharon Machlis wrote an article called “How to merge data in R using R merge, dplyr, or data.table.” Sharon is a whiz at R programming, and analytics in ...

Since the creation of python reading in files has become much easier with each update and with each added package. To work with csv and xlsx files the easiest package is the pandas package because it ...

Pandas is a Python library used for working with table data. It allows for high-level data manipulation where the key data structure is a DataFrame. DataFrames are similar to Excel spreadsheets ...

Related: History of Python programming language For instance, the Pandas library is used for data manipulation and analysis, whereas the well-known NumPy library offers functions for numerical ...