Groupby in Pandas | Lecture 5
Groupby in Pandas The groupby operation in Pandas is a powerful tool for analyzing and summarizing data. It allows you to split your data into groups based on a column or index, apply a function to each group, and combine the results. 1. Basic Syntax grouped = df.groupby("column_name") groupby() groups the data based on the values in the specified column(s). It returns a DataFrameGroupBy object, which you can aggregate, transform, or iterate over. 2. Common Operations with groupby a) Aggregation Aggregation functions like sum() , mean() , count() , etc., can be applied to grouped data. Example: import pandas as pd # Creating a sample DataFrame data = { "Department": ["HR", "IT", "HR", "IT", "Sales", "HR", "Sales"], "Employee": ["Alice", "Bob", "Charlie", "David", "Eva",...