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In data analysis, often there is a need to combine data from different sources into a single dataset. This process, known as merging or joining, is crucial when you're working with relational data. Pandas provides several functions to efficiently merge and join datasets.
Merging in pandas is similar to database-style joins. The merge function is used to combine two (or more) DataFrames on a common set of keys.