chendaniely/scipy-2019-pandas ? reverse-engineered prompt

Build me a small Jupyter notebook based workshop project for teaching pandas, like a SciPy tutorial that someone can open and run locally.

I want the notebooks to walk through the basics of loading data, cleaning it, selecting rows and columns, grouping, and doing simple summaries, with a few hands on exercises mixed in so people can practice. Include some notes or answers for the instructor, and make sure the sample data is included so it works right after download.

Also add a simple installation check script that verifies the needed Python libraries are installed, and make the repo easy to launch in Jupyter Notebook from a fresh setup. Keep it beginner friendly, with clear instructions for getting started and running the notebooks. If you need to check current docs for anything, go ahead and look them up online.