pandas

/PAN-duz/ · noun · Development · Origin: 2008

Definitions

  1. An open-source Python library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures (DataFrames and Series) and analysis tools. Built on top of NumPy, pandas is the de facto standard for tabular data manipulation in Python, supporting operations like merging, reshaping, time-series analysis, and handling missing data.

    In plain English: A Python tool that lets you work with spreadsheet-like data — filtering rows, computing averages, and combining tables — all in code instead of Excel.

    Example: She loaded the 2 million-row CSV into a pandas DataFrame, grouped by region, and had the quarterly summary ready in four lines of code.

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