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Welcome back to Pandas Daily! Your daily 5-minute boost to becoming confident in Python. Today: Let’s dive into Python "Dictionaries", the toolbox for storing data with labels and values. If you are an absolute beginner you can glance through previous issues as well Think of Python Dictionaries like a real world dictionary: you look up a word (key) and find its meaning (value). Data is basically stored as key-value pair. Use when you want to connect a label (like a name) to information (like...

Welcome back to Pandas Daily! Your daily 5-minute boost to becoming confident in Python. Today: Get hands-on with Python lists — master storing and managing of multiple items in one place. If you are an absolute beginner you can glance through previous issues as well A "list" is a datatype that can store multiple values as one variable. Yes you can stuff numbers, strings, anything together 🔍 What does it look like? Reminder: print() is often used to display output In [1]: # List is...

Welcome back to Pandas Daily! Your daily 5-minute boost to becoming confident in Python. Today: Dive into Python strings — learn how to create, manipulate, and explore them. "String" is any sequence of characters (letters, numbers, symbols etc.) in quotes. Can be represented in single ☝️ or double quotes ✌️ In [1]: # String in single quotes 'I love Pandas Daily' Out [1]: 'I love Pandas Daily' In [2]: # String in double quotes "I love Pandas Daily" Out [2]: 'I love Pandas Daily' ↩️ Slight...

Welcome to the very first issue of Pandas Daily — your 5 minute daily dose of Python. Today: Understand some of Python’s data types with examples and clean output. “Data Types” help the computer understand what you're working with—numbers, text, or something else. Common Data Types 1. Numbers Reminder: As seen below, "In [1]" is the code input we will type in and "Out [1]" is the output of code once executed In [1]: # Integers (anything starting with '#' is a comment and not executed) 8 Out...