pandas: Powerful data analysis tools for Python¶
Author¶
- Wes McKinney
- Recovering mathematician
- 3 years quant
- Building Lambda Foundry
- writing “Python for Data Analysis” * coming out later this year
Pandas¶
- pandas.pydata.org
- rich relational data on numpy
- high performance tools
- consistent api
Data Wrangling¶
- Simplify the tools on processing the data
- Don’t transfer from R to Python
Testing¶
- >98% coverage
- Battle tested
Demos¶
- iPython transformed development
- Good outside of science
Table¶
- DataFrame is the core structure
- Axis indexing allows rich data alignment
- Alignment free programming * Often does munging for you