A pandas cookbook by Julia Evans.
From the post:
A few people have told me recently that they find the slides for my talks really helpful for getting started with pandas, a Python library for manipulating data. But then they get out of date, and it’s tough to support slides for a talk that I gave a year ago.
So I was procrastinating packing to leave New York yesterday, and I started writing up some examples, with explanations! A lot of them are taken from talks I’ve given, but I also want to give some new examples, like
- how to deal with timestamps
- what is a pivot table and why would you ever want one?
- how to deal with “big” data
I’ve put it in a GitHub repository called pandas-cookbook. It’s along the same lines as the pandas talks I’ve given – take a real dataset or three, play around with it, and learn how to use pandas along the way.
From what I have seen recently, “cookbooks” are going to be a big item in 2014!