Pandas are used for reading the data from Excel, CSV or json files. It will allow you to read data in a matrix format and save it as a dataframe. Once data is read through pandas as dataframe, it can be formatted in the form of rows and columns. We can perform following functions on data frame to support data analysis, exploration of data and data science activities:
- Adding a new column
- filtering data on rows
- Creating new data features with the help of other existing data
- Efficiently handles large data
- Makes data flexible and customizable