Pandas makes it easy to quickly load, manipulate, align, merge, and even visualize data tables directly in Python.

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, ...

The libraries we'll use in this article are NumPy, pandas, SciPy, and Pingouin. We'll also install IPython, because it's so handy for interactive use over the standard Python interpreter.