You don't need to be a data scientist to use Pandas for some basic analysis. Traditionally, people who program in Python use the data types that come with the language, such as integers, strings, ...

Stefanie Molin's new book, “Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas" is about using the powerful pandas library to get started with machine learning in Python.

Here we will use Pandas’s aptly-named get_dummies() method. In this approach, we pass get_dummies() a column in a data frame and it creates a full matrix of zero-one values. In other words, it gives ...