Category: Coding

Install Anaconda on Linux Mint.

Introduction In this article I will go through the installation process of Anaconda onto Linux Mint. Step 1. Download Anaconda Go to anaconda.com and download the installation file as shown below. After the downloading completes you will see the installation shell script: Step 2. Run the installation script Now open the terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) navigate to

How to create a DataFrame object in Pandas

Introduction In this article I’m going to show how to create a Pandas DataFrame object in two different ways. Create a DataFrame from a dictionary Each key of the dictionary defines the name of the column and the value (list object) for that key defines the column values. The code above will create a DataFrame

Sets in Python

Introduction Set is an unordered collection of elements with no duplicates. They can only contain immutable objects, therefore sets can’t contain list, dictionaries or another sets. Sets are usually used when someone needs to know whether a particular element is in a collection or not and the order itself does not matter. The good use

Python Tuples with examples

Introduction Tuples are very similar to lists in Python, but in contrast to lists they can’t be modified. Once you created the tuple, you can’t modify/delete/append its elements, therefore tuples are said to be immutable. How to create a tuple? Similarly to a list, a tuple contains sequence of values. To create a tuple, we

Python Lists with examples

Introduction This article provides a lot of information about Python lists. We will learn how to create lists, append and delete elements, sort lists and create slices. List List is a collection(array) which contains ordered elements. Each element of a list has its own index. Lists can be modified and therefore are called “mutable” objects.

Data types in Python 3

Introduction In this post we will have a look at several built-in data types in Python, like numbers, strings, lists and others. I will use Ubuntu 18.04 with Python 3.5.2 for demonstration, but you can use any Python 3 interpreter, for example Python IDLE for Windows or MacOS. $ python3 Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 12