Intermediate
DataFrames
Work with tabular data using DataFrames.jl - Julia's equivalent of pandas, with powerful filtering, grouping, joining, and transformation capabilities.
Creating DataFrames
Julia
using DataFrames, CSV # Create from columns df = DataFrame( name = ["Alice", "Bob", "Charlie"], age = [30, 25, 35], salary = [75000, 62000, 90000] ) # Load from CSV df = CSV.read("data.csv", DataFrame) # Basic inspection first(df, 5) # First 5 rows describe(df) # Summary statistics names(df) # Column names size(df) # (rows, cols) nrow(df) # Number of rows
Selecting and Filtering
Julia
# Select columns df[:, [:name, :age]] select(df, :name, :salary) # Filter rows filter(row -> row.age > 28, df) subset(df, :age => x -> x .> 28) # Sort sort(df, :salary, rev=true) # Add new columns with transform transform(df, :salary => (s -> s ./ 12) => :monthly_pay)
GroupBy and Aggregation
Julia
using Statistics # Group and aggregate (Split-Apply-Combine) combine( groupby(df, :department), :salary => mean => :avg_salary, :salary => maximum => :max_salary, nrow => :count ) # Multiple aggregations gdf = groupby(df, [:department, :level]) result = combine(gdf, :salary => mean, :salary => std, :age => median )
Joining DataFrames
Julia
employees = DataFrame(id=[1,2,3], name=["Alice","Bob","Charlie"], dept_id=[1,2,1]) departments = DataFrame(dept_id=[1,2], dept_name=["Engineering","Marketing"]) # Inner join innerjoin(employees, departments, on=:dept_id) # Left join leftjoin(employees, departments, on=:dept_id) # Outer join outerjoin(employees, departments, on=:dept_id)
Missing Data
Julia
# Julia uses `missing` (not NaN or None) df = DataFrame(x=[1, 2, missing, 4], y=["a", missing, "c", "d"]) # Drop rows with missing values dropmissing(df) dropmissing(df, :x) # Only check column x # Replace missing values coalesce.(df.x, 0) # Replace missing with 0 # Check for missing ismissing.(df.x)
Tip: Julia's
missing propagates through computations (like SQL's NULL). Use skipmissing() to exclude missing values from calculations: mean(skipmissing(df.x)).Ready to Go Deeper?
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