What is (modern) pandas?#
Learning Objectives#
After working through this topic, you should be able to:
Understand that pandas is used for everything related to loading datasets and preparing them for the analysis
Appreciate that pandas is under active development and will only get better
Configure pandas to use modern features
Explain the benefits of opting into modern features of pandas
Materials#
Here is the Screencast and these are the slides.
pandas settings for getting “modern” behaviour#
import pandas as pd
pd.options.mode.copy_on_write = True
pd.options.future.infer_string = True