Lesson 3 - Functions, Reading data in general and with Pandas

Today we will cover how we can get data into Python, do stuff with it, and make some simple plots.

Resources

Data Downloads

• GDP.csv file from the FRED database. (We can also call this file remotely with Pandas so you don’t necessarily have to download it).
• Where to get data? Easy place: Kaggle
  • we will be using the movies dataset which unzips into this CSV file.

Reading

1. Py4E: Ch. 4 & 7
2. SC’s Data with Pandas lesson
3. Optional: IS452’s notebook on functions

Extra Code examples

1. You can check out the Jupyter Notebook from last summer for some more examples of functions and plotting with functions.

Materials

• Lecture 3 - Functions & Data I/O: (view, source, present)
• Notebook example_hw_lesson03: (view, download)
• Notebook inClass_lesson03: (view, download)
• Notebook prep_notebook_lesson03: (view, download)
• Notebook test_imports_lesson03: (view, download)