Move from Excel to Python with Pandas Transcripts
Chapter: Data wrangling with Pandas
Lecture: Walk through of data types in Excel
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Before we do some work in pandas,
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I'm gonna walk through a couple excel examples of how we can manipulate a daytime data
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and then show how we would do that and pandas.
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So I've opened up my sample sales details file,
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and there's a column See, that has the purchase date.
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So what if during our analysis,
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we wanted to get the month associated with that purchase state,
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we would enter a formula that looks something like this and copy that down to eat
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row. We could do a similar thing for the day.
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We want to do that for the year,
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relatively straightforward. And just for the sake of talking about data types,
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what would happen if we tried to do the same formula?
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But maybe did I'll call him be,
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too, which is not a year we get evaluator.
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So this starts to talk about how you when you're working with Excel,
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you intuitively know you can't call year on a calm that doesn't have a daytime value
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So we'll use that concept when we start to work on our hands data frame
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and then the final thing I want to do an example of is what if
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you wanted to understand what quarter you were in now,
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I had to look this up on the Internet.
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But if I wanted to know that this first March 5th was in quarter one,
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here's a formula I would have to use.
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I have to use round up and then put in the date and then divided by
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three been around 20 and the reason I show that form was it highlights how some
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of the things that you can do in excel with a formula are a little complicated
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and you typically have to do some Google searching.
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But in pandas, there are some easier options,
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which we will explore in a second.