Pandas

Pandas is the Python Data Analysis library. It is installed via the conda package managment system and may already be installed in your environment.

Install Pandas

1. Open a windows or OS/X terminal
2. Type the following into the terminal:

conda install pandas -y

The terminal should print something like the following:

Fetching package metadata .............
Solving package specifications: .

Package plan for installation in environment /Users/hannah/miniconda3/envs/installenv:

The following NEW packages will be INSTALLED:

    ca-certificates: 2018.4.16-0             conda-forge
    certifi:         2018.4.16-py36_0        conda-forge
    libcxx:          4.0.1-h579ed51_0      

        .... omitted text ....

pandas-0.23.0- 100% |########################################| Time: 0:00:03   4.12 MB/s
wheel-0.31.1-p 100% |########################################| Time: 0:00:00   2.89 MB/s
pip-10.0.1-py3 100% |########################################| Time: 0:00:00  14.36 MB/s

Test Pandas install

While still in the terminal, launch the Python interpreter by typing Python. You should then see something like:

Python 3.6.5 |Anaconda, Inc.| (default, Apr 26 2018, 08:42:37) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Clang 4.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_401/final)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 

Then try to load Pandas by typing import pandas If everything has installed correctly, you will then see a blank line starting with >>> underneath, as shown below.

Python 3.6.5 |Anaconda, Inc.| (default, Apr 26 2018, 08:42:37) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Clang 4.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_401/final)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pandas
>>> 

If the installation failed, the terminal will print an error.