A Disturbingly Long (But Excellent) Guide on Performing Pandas Joins
Last Updated on July 25, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Bex T.
Originally published on Towards AI.
From semi/anti joins to validating data merges
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A nasty shock that comes with real-world data is that it never comes in a single, tame CSV file. Instead, it ıs a bundle of tables that interact with each other in many ways using common columns.
It is your unfortunate job to leverage these interactions and find insights from the mess. And your single most important skill to do the task will be performing joins between tables.
So, my unfortunate job today is to teach you almost all the ways you can do these joıns in Pandas. Grab a coffee; we are gonna be a while.
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