Track 14 · Lesson 4 of 12

DataFrames and loading data

Load a CSV file into a pandas DataFrame, inspect its shape, columns and types, and select the columns you need.

You will be able to

• Create a DataFrame from a dictionary of lists
• Load a CSV file with pd.read_csv, including files with unusual separators or extra lines
• Inspect data with head, shape, columns, dtypes, info and describe
• Select one column as a Series and several columns as a DataFrame