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Ranting about Pandas: Overcrowded, Overcomplicated and Overwhelming

🧵 The TL;DR

Learning Pandas is complicated, with multiple ways to slice, dice, and manipulate data. It also has its own sets of rules for merges, joins, and concats, as well as factorizing. This article warns new data scientists of the complexity ahead.

    🔑 Key Points

  • Multiple slicing methods, each with their own quirks
  • Functions overloaded or split across duplicative functions
  • Merges, joins, and concats have their own sets of rules

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