You typically work with Pandas by importing data in some other format. A common external tabular data format is CSV, a text file with values separated by commas. You'll find later that you can use dictionary- and list-like methods for finding elements in a DataFrame. You can also think of the Pandas DataFrame as a dictionary or collection of Series objects. The DataFrame represents your entire spreadsheet or rectangular data, whereas the Series is a single column of the DataFrame.
Pandas gives you two new data types: Series and DataFrame.