Category Archives for Python

Is Learning Python Essential for Success as a Data Analyst?

You want to know which skills matter for data analysts (DAs) right now. LinkedIn is full of advice, but after reading countless posts, here are the skills you really need to focus on: SQL is non-negotiable.

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Stock Charting

Create Stock Charts in Two Lines of Code

Creating stock charts requires expensive software, or at least it used to. Now, you can simply create it right from a programming languages. Even better, you can do it all in two lines of code. Nice! What’s

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Loc and iLoc for DataFrames

Grasping Loc and iLoc in Pandas

One of the first hurdles beginners face when learning Pandas is understanding the difference between loc. Will this work? If you did not guess that this operation would fail, you may want to run

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DataCamp.com Introduction to Python

Review of Data Camp’s Introduction to Python

If you take no other course to learn Python, take the free first chapter to the Introduction to Python course from DataCamp.com. Between an industry expert teaching the course and Data Camp's innovative

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