@@ -32,32 +32,32 @@ its way towards this goal.
3232Here are just a few of the things that pandas does well:
3333
3434 - Easy handling of [ ** missing data** ] [ missing-data ] (represented as
35- ` NaN ` , ` NA ` , or ` NaT ` ) in floating point as well as non-floating point data;
35+ ` NaN ` , ` NA ` , or ` NaT ` ) in floating point as well as non-floating point data
3636 - Size mutability: columns can be [ ** inserted and
3737 deleted** ] [ insertion-deletion ] from DataFrame and higher dimensional
38- objects;
38+ objects
3939 - Automatic and explicit [ ** data alignment** ] [ alignment ] : objects can
4040 be explicitly aligned to a set of labels, or the user can simply
4141 ignore the labels and let ` Series ` , ` DataFrame ` , etc. automatically
42- align the data for you in computations;
42+ align the data for you in computations
4343 - Powerful, flexible [ ** group by** ] [ groupby ] functionality to perform
4444 split-apply-combine operations on data sets, for both aggregating
45- and transforming data;
45+ and transforming data
4646 - Make it [ ** easy to convert** ] [ conversion ] ragged,
4747 differently-indexed data in other Python and NumPy data structures
48- into DataFrame objects;
48+ into DataFrame objects
4949 - Intelligent label-based [ ** slicing** ] [ slicing ] , [ ** fancy
5050 indexing** ] [ fancy-indexing ] , and [ ** subsetting** ] [ subsetting ] of
51- large data sets;
51+ large data sets
5252 - Intuitive [ ** merging** ] [ merging ] and [ ** joining** ] [ joining ] data
53- sets;
53+ sets
5454 - Flexible [ ** reshaping** ] [ reshape ] and [ ** pivoting** ] [ pivot-table ] of
55- data sets;
55+ data sets
5656 - [ ** Hierarchical** ] [ mi ] labeling of axes (possible to have multiple
57- labels per tick);
57+ labels per tick)
5858 - Robust IO tools for loading data from [ ** flat files** ] [ flat-files ]
5959 (CSV and delimited), [ ** Excel files** ] [ excel ] , [ ** databases** ] [ db ] ,
60- and saving/loading data from the ultrafast [ ** HDF5 format** ] [ hdfstore ] ;
60+ and saving/loading data from the ultrafast [ ** HDF5 format** ] [ hdfstore ]
6161 - [ ** Time series** ] [ timeseries ] -specific functionality: date range
6262 generation and frequency conversion, moving window statistics,
6363 date shifting and lagging.
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