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# Introduction

Welcome to the User Guide for the Python bindings of Arrow DataFusion. This guide aims to provide an introduction to
DataFusion through various examples and highlight the most effective ways of using it.

## Installation

DataFusion is a Python library and, as such, can be installed via pip from [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/datafusion).

```shell
pip install datafusion
```

You can verify the installation by running:

```{code-cell} ipython3
import datafusion
datafusion.__version__
```

In this documentation we will also show some examples for how DataFusion integrates
with Jupyter notebooks. To install and start a Jupyter labs session use

```shell
pip install jupyterlab
jupyter lab
```

To demonstrate working with DataFusion, we need a data source. Later in the tutorial we will show
options for data sources. For our first example, we demonstrate using a Pokemon dataset that you
can download
[here](https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ritchie46/cac6b337ea52281aa23c049250a4ff03/raw/89a957ff3919d90e6ef2d34235e6bf22304f3366/pokemon.csv).

With that file in place you can use the following python example to view the DataFrame in
DataFusion.

```{code-cell} ipython3
from datafusion import SessionContext

ctx = SessionContext()

df = ctx.read_csv("pokemon.csv")

df.show()
```

If you are working in a Jupyter notebook, you can also use the following to give you a table
display that may be easier to read.

```shell
display(df)
```

```{image} ../images/jupyter_lab_df_view.png
:alt: Rendered table showing Pokemon DataFrame
:width: 800
```