Pandas -Environment Setup
Here are Python Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) for Windows that come with the pandas library pre-installed.
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Anaconda (Official Website): Anaconda is a free and open-source distribution of Python and R programming languages for scientific computing, that aims to simplify package management and deployment. It comes with many pre-installed libraries for data science, including pandas.
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Jupyter Notebook (Official Website): Jupyter Notebook isn't a traditional IDE but a web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text. Jupyter Notebook is included in the Anaconda distribution and comes with pandas pre-installed.
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Google Colab (Official Website): Google Colab is a free cloud service based on Jupyter Notebooks for machine learning education and research. It provides a collaborative and interactive environment that already has pandas and several other libraries installed.
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Spyder (Official Website): Spyder is an open-source IDE specifically designed for scientists, engineers, and data analysts, with a unique combination of advanced editing, analysis, debugging, and profiling functionality. It's included in the Anaconda distribution and comes with pandas pre-installed.
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Microsoft Azure Notebooks (Official Website): This is a free hosted service for developing and running Jupyter notebooks in the cloud with no installation necessary. It has pandas pre-installed as well.
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Replit (Official Website): Replit is an online, cloud-based IDE that supports many programming languages, including Python. While it doesn't come with pandas pre-installed by default, adding it is as simple as clicking on the 'packages' button and then searching and adding pandas.