Interesting choice of Pandas in this day and age. Maybe he’s after imparting general concepts that you could apply to any tabular data manipulator rather than selecting for the latest shiny tool.
These types of books are always interesting to me because they tackle so many different things. They cover a range of topics at a high level (data manipulation, visualization, machine learning) and each could have its own book. They balance teaching programming while introducing concepts (and sometimes theory).
In short I think it's hard to strike an appropriate balance between these but this seems to be a good intro level book.
Interesting choice of Pandas in this day and age. Maybe he’s after imparting general concepts that you could apply to any tabular data manipulator rather than selecting for the latest shiny tool.
These types of books are always interesting to me because they tackle so many different things. They cover a range of topics at a high level (data manipulation, visualization, machine learning) and each could have its own book. They balance teaching programming while introducing concepts (and sometimes theory).
In short I think it's hard to strike an appropriate balance between these but this seems to be a good intro level book.
He's a great writer and I miss his blog. He had an awesome post on pivot table that I think is now a part of this book.