You don't need to be a data scientist to use Pandas for some basic analysis. Traditionally, people who program in Python use the data types that come with the language, such as integers, strings, ...

Before plotting, data often needs cleaning, transformation, or reshaping — tasks easily handled by pandas. Using DataFrames, you can filter, aggregate, and restructure datasets, making them plot-ready ...

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