Introduction

The Python data science stack is an informal name for a set of libraries used together to tackle data science problems. There is no consensus on which libraries are part of this list; it usually depends on the data scientist and the problem to be solved. We will present the libraries most commonly used together and explain how they can be used.

In this chapter, we will learn how to manipulate tabular data with the Python data science stack. The Python data science stack is the first stepping stone to manipulate large datasets, although these libraries are not commonly used for big data themselves. The ideas and the methods that are used here will be very helpful when we get to large datasets.