Creating a data frame from excel. 

pd.read_csv(path, index_col=0,parse_dates=True).

example:

df = pd.read_csv('small_data/fha_by_tract.csv', names=names)
df.head()

Best Regards - Naren


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> From: Charlotte Hoff Sonne <charlotte.so...@hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Tutor] Creating a DataFrame from excel file
> Date: February 8, 2018 at 1:23:09 PM PST
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> I wish to create a very large data frame with pandas. So far, I have learned 
> how to create data frames by manually entering the values I want in my data 
> frame. However, now I have a large dataset from excel that I want to get 
> imported as a data frame in jupyter notebook. Initially i wrote the following 
> code:
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> pd.read_excel(“…”)
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> But this is not a data frame, is it? Can I convert my excel file to a data 
> frame?
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> From: Mark Lawrence <breamore...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Creating a DataFrame from excel file
> Date: February 9, 2018 at 8:35:15 AM PST
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> On 08/02/18 21:23, Charlotte Hoff Sonne wrote:
>> I wish to create a very large data frame with pandas. So far, I have learned 
>> how to create data frames by manually entering the values I want in my data 
>> frame. However, now I have a large dataset from excel that I want to get 
>> imported as a data frame in jupyter notebook. Initially i wrote the 
>> following code:
>> pd.read_excel(“…”)
>> But this is not a data frame, is it? Can I convert my excel file to a data 
>> frame?
> 
> https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.read_excel.html 
> states quite clearly "Read an Excel table into a pandas DataFrame" so you 
> just have to assign the return value from the call to a variable.
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