Keep going

You now know the core of pandas: creating, selecting, summarizing, grouping, cleaning, and combining data. That is the daily toolkit of a data analyst.

To keep building:

• Apply pandas to a dataset you care about, your own or one from the RiseAfrica datasets page
• Learn to make charts, the natural next step after pandas
• Continue with the RiseAfrica Data Science and Intro to Machine Learning courses, which build directly on these skills

The best way to learn pandas is to use it on real questions. Pick a dataset this week and explore it.

Practice

Open the RiseAfrica datasets page, choose one dataset, and write down three questions you could answer about it with pandas. Then use what you learned here to answer one of them.