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**pandas ** is a `Python <https://www.python.org >`__ package providing fast,
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flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with
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"relational" or "labeled" data both easy and intuitive. It aims to be the
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- fundamental high-level building block for doing practical, **real world ** data
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+ fundamental high-level building block for doing practical, **real- world ** data
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analysis in Python. Additionally, it has the broader goal of becoming **the
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- most powerful and flexible open source data analysis / manipulation tool
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+ most powerful and flexible open source data analysis/ manipulation tool
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available in any language **. It is already well on its way toward this goal.
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pandas is well suited for many different kinds of data:
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- Ordered and unordered (not necessarily fixed-frequency) time series data.
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- Arbitrary matrix data (homogeneously typed or heterogeneous) with row and
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column labels
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- - Any other form of observational / statistical data sets. The data actually
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+ - Any other form of observational / statistical data sets. The data
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need not be labeled at all to be placed into a pandas data structure
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The two primary data structures of pandas, :class: `Series ` (1-dimensional)
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Excel files, databases, and saving / loading data from the ultrafast **HDF5
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format **
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- **Time series **-specific functionality: date range generation and frequency
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- conversion, moving window statistics, date shifting and lagging.
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+ conversion, moving window statistics, date shifting, and lagging.
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Many of these principles are here to address the shortcomings frequently
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experienced using other languages / scientific research environments. For data
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Also, we would like sensible default behaviors for the common API functions
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which take into account the typical orientation of time series and
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- cross-sectional data sets. When using ndarrays to store 2- and 3-dimensional
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+ cross-sectional data sets. When using the N-dimensional array ( ndarrays) to store 2- and 3-dimensional
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data, a burden is placed on the user to consider the orientation of the data
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set when writing functions; axes are considered more or less equivalent (except
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when C- or Fortran-contiguousness matters for performance). In pandas, the axes
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are intended to lend more semantic meaning to the data; i.e., for a particular
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- data set there is likely to be a "right" way to orient the data. The goal,
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+ data set, there is likely to be a "right" way to orient the data. The goal,
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then, is to reduce the amount of mental effort required to code up data
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transformations in downstream functions.
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If you're interested in contributing, please visit the :ref: `contributing guide <contributing >`.
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pandas is a `NumFOCUS <https://www.numfocus.org/open-source-projects/ >`__ sponsored project.
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- This will help ensure the success of development of pandas as a world-class open-source
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- project, and makes it possible to `donate <https://pandas.pydata.org/donate.html >`__ to the project.
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+ This will help ensure the success of the development of pandas as a world-class open-source
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+ project and makes it possible to `donate <https://pandas.pydata.org/donate.html >`__ to the project.
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Project governance
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