Reader functions

• Reader functions accessed like pandas.read_[fileType]()
• Generally return a pandas object
• Links:
  • https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/io.html
  • https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/io.html
  • https://realpython.com/pandas-read-write-files/#understanding-the-pandas-io-api

Get sample data

See: Sample Data - pandas

CSV files

• pandas.read_csv()
• https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.read_csv.html

Loading data from csv file

import pandas as pd

olympic_dataframe = pd.read_csv("olympics.csv", skiprows = 4)

First 7 items

olympic_dataframe.head(7)

Entire DataFrame

olympic_dataframe