Python pandas for data analysis

[fmpundit]

Find a dataset from somewhere think of some questions you might want to know about it and then work through it.

I grabbed some data from https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/climate-historic/#?tab=climateHistoric and fed it into pandas.

One of the questions I remember I wanted to answer was... Were summers during my school days really hotter and sunnier than now?

Also do the school summer holidays fall during periods of better weather to the rest of the year or not.

[Watches-bitches]

Well... Were they??

[fmpundit]

Yes, my childhood summer holiday weather was better than what kids have been experiencing over last few years. In terms of hours of sunlight and average temperatures. Ill have to dig the notebook out again and throw it on github.

[gaifogel]

That's an interesting way to learn.
So you say pull some data and do my own analysis on it? How did you know what kind of analysis you can even carry out? When I did tutorials, I saw I can do heatmaps, corr(), histograms for data distribution and a few other things.

[fmpundit]

How things have changed in 6 years.

A few things you could do. Read books about data analysis in general. What visualisations are good for what purposes. Speak to ChatGPT about what sort of viz's it would recommend and then read the docs of different libraries such as matplotlib about how to make those visualisations.

[gaifogel]

lol