Why read Effective Pandas?

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Best practices for manipulating data with Pandas. This book will arm you with years of knowledge and experience that are condensed into an easy to follow format. Rather than taking months reading blogs and websites and searching mailing lists and groups, this book will teach you how to write good…

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2 authors picked Effective Pandas as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Wes McKinney

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This is a super useful book published more recently that shows how to make the most of pandas’s deep toolbelt of features.

Compared with Python for Data Analysis, it explores some of the newer features added to pandas, and I think that any advanced pandas user will become more effective in their day to day work by reading it.

From Wes' list on Python books for leveling up your data skills.

Valliappa Lakshmanan

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Even if you are ultimately going to be working with terabytes of data, you’ll start out doing exploratory data analysis. The tool that you’ll use for that is most likely going to be Pandas. One of the best investments that you can make when becoming a data scientist is to become a Pandas expert, and there is no better book than Harrison’s to help you get there. Plus, many of the interview questions you will face during the hiring process will probably involve Pandas. Blow your interviewers out of the water by showing them corners of the Pandas library they…

From Valliappa's list on if you want to become a data scientist.