Summary  
This chapter covers how to introspect a tabular data structure to retrieve metadata (row/column counts, column names, data types) and determine its length using built-in functions.

General domain of usage  
Data analysis

In `pandas`, there's a handy method named `info()` that provides basic information about a dataset.

import pandas as pd
# It's a dataframe
df = pd.read_csv('https://codefinity-content-media.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/a43d24b6-df61-4e11-9c90-5b36552b3437/example.csv')
info = df.info()
print(info)

This method displays the number of rows and columns in the DataFrame, as well as each column's name and data type. For instance, `df` contains **20** rows and **5** columns.

To determine the length of the DataFrame, we can use the `len()` function, as demonstrated in the example below:
```python
length = len(df)
```

import unittest
import importlib
import pandas as pd
from io import StringIO
import re


def _dynamic_test(test_case, condition, success_message, failure_message):
    if condition:
        test_case._testMethodName = success_message
        test_case.assertTrue(True, success_message)
    else:
        test_case._testMethodName = failure_message
        test_case.fail(failure_message)


class TestUserCode(unittest.TestCase):

    def test_information_is_declared(self):
        import user_code
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            hasattr(user_code, 'information'),
            "The `information` variable is declared.",
            "Expected `information` to be declared."
        )

    def test_info_method_is_used(self):
        with open('user_code.py', 'r') as file:
            user_code_source = file.read()

        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            re.search(r'\.info\s*\(', user_code_source),
            "The `info()` method is used.",
            "Expected the `info()` method to be used."
        )


if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()

test_main.py

Pandas is an extremely user-friendly library for data analysis. It's also designed to handle large datasets, using data structures like DataFrame and Series. This makes it an invaluable tool for Data Science. In this guide, you'll get acquainted with a range of statistical functions, including how to find correlations, modes, medians, and maximum and minimum values within a dataset. You'll also learn how to handle missing values and manipulate specific values, as well as how to remove them.

In this section, we'll explore the fundamentals of Series and DataFrame structures. You'll also learn about the distinctions between these two types of structures.

Data can be sourced in various formats, such as CSV, JSON, SQL, HTML, and more. With Pandas, you're not limited to a single format — you can work with data across a multitude of file types. In this chapter, we'll specifically focus on the CSV and TXT formats.

Here, you'll learn how to process raw data by removing extraneous information and managing null values in a dataset.

Exploring the Dataset

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Exploring the Dataset

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