Welcome to Week 5!

Welcome to Week 5 of the Earth Analytics Bootcamp course! This week, you will write Python code and use the pandas package to import tabular data (.csv) as a pandas dataframe. You will then learn to summarize and manipulate pandas dataframes.

Learning Objectives

After completing the lessons for Week 5, you will be able to:

• Describe the pandas dataframe data structure
• List key differences between numpy arrays and pandas dataframes
• Write Python code to import tabular data (.csv) into pandas dataframes
• Write Python code to describe, manipulate, and plot pandas dataframes
• Write Python code to select data from pandas dataframe using indexing based on locations and values

Homework & Readings

Click here to view the GitHub Repo with the assignment template.

Earth Data Science Textbook Readings

Please read the following chapters of the Intro to Earth Data Science online textbook to support completing this week’s assignment:

• Pandas Data Frames Python.

Optional: You may also want to review the following chapters if you are new to using Python:

• Chapter 11 in Section 4 - Introduction to Python Packages.
• Chapter 12 in Section 4 - files and directories in Python.