Lesson 16.1 - Pandas 1

Prep for Class

• Read Lesson 1 from Lessons for New pandas Users.

Key Ideas

• The pandas library supports data analysis, data manipulation and data visualization.
• The name derives from “panel data”, a term for multidimensional structured data sets.

Getting Started

• Mac: pip3 install --user pandas
• Windows: python -m pip install pandas

Lecture Activity

• Understand pandas1.py completely.

Active Learning

Modify the lecture code as follows.

• Plot the largest snowfall by year.
• Make Bridger Bowl the title of the chart.
• The lecture code draws a bar chart. Draw at least two other types of graphs with the data.