Reading Data with Pandas — CSV, Excel, and JSON

In this lesson, we will learn how to read data from CSV, Excel, and JSON files using Pandas. We will understand why file paths, delimiters, sheet names, encoding, and initial data checks are important when loading data. ## Lesson objective In this lesson, we will learn how to read data from files using Pandas. In the previous lesson, we started learning Pandas and covered Series and DataFrame. We learned that a DataFrame is a table structure made of rows and columns. However, in real data analytics, data is usually not created manually inside the code. Data often comes from files.