pandas (software)

pandas

Original author(s) Wes McKinney

Developer(s) Community

Initial release 11 January 2008; 13 years ago

Stable release 1.3.0[1] / 2 July 2021; 5 months ago

 github.com/pandas-dev/pandas
Repository

Written in Python, Cython, C

Operating system Cross-platform

Type Technical computing

License New BSD License

Website pandas.pydata.org

pandas is a software library written for the Python programming language for data
manipulation and analysis. In particular, it offers data structures and operations for
manipulating numerical tables and time series. It is free software released under
the three-clause BSD license.[2] The name is derived from the term "panel data",
an econometrics term for data sets that include observations over multiple time
periods for the same individuals.[3] Its name is a play on the phrase "Python data
analysis" itself.[4] Wes McKinney started building what would become pandas at AQR
Capital while he was a researcher there from 2007 to 2010.[5]

Contents

 1Library features
  2Dataframes
 3History
o 3.1Timeline:[13]
 4See also
 5References
 6Further reading
 7External links

Library features[edit]
 DataFrame object for data manipulation with integrated
indexing.
 Tools for reading and writing data between in-
memory data structures and different file formats.
 Data alignment and integrated handling of missing data.
 Reshaping and pivoting of data sets.
 Label-based slicing, fancy indexing, and subsetting of
large data sets.
 Data structure column insertion and deletion.
 Group by engine allowing split-apply-combine operations
on data sets.
 Data set merging and joining.
 Hierarchical axis indexing to work with high-dimensional
data in a lower-dimensional data structure.
 Time series-functionality: Date range generation[6] and
frequency conversions, moving window statistics,
moving window linear regressions, date shifting and
lagging.
 Provides data filtration.
The library is highly optimized for performance, with critical code paths written
in Cython or C.[7]

Dataframes[edit]
Pandas is mainly used for data analysis. Pandas allows importing data from various
file formats such as comma-separated values, JSON, SQL, and Microsoft
Excel.[8] Pandas allows various data manipulation operations such as
merging,[9] reshaping,[10] selecting,[11] as well as data cleaning, and data
wrangling features.

History[edit]
Developer Wes McKinney started working on pandas in 2008 while at AQR Capital
Management out of the need for a high performance, flexible tool to
perform quantitative analysis on financial data. Before leaving AQR he was able to
convince management to allow him to open source the library.
Another AQR employee, Chang She, joined the effort in 2012 as the second major
contributor to the library.
In 2015, pandas signed on as a fiscally sponsored project of NumFOCUS,
a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity in the United States.[12]
Timeline:[13][edit]
 2008: Development of pandas started
 2009: pandas becomes open source
 2012: First edition of Python for Data Analysis is
published
 2015: pandas becomes a NumFOCUS sponsored
project
 2018: First in-person core developer sprint

See also[edit]
 matplotlib
 NumPy
 SciPy
 R (programming language)
 Scikit-learn
 statsmodels
 List of numerical analysis software

References[edit]
1. ^ "Release 1.3.0". 2 July 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
2. ^ "License – Package overview – pandas 1.0.0
documentation". pandas. 28 January 2020. Retrieved 30
January 2020.
3. ^ Wes McKinney (2011). "pandas: a Foundational Python Library
for Data Analysis and Statistics" (PDF). Retrieved 2 August 2018.
4. ^ McKinney, Wes (2017). Python for Data Analysis, Second
Edition. O'Reilly Media. p. 5. ISBN 9781491957660.
5. ^ Kopf, Dan. "Meet the man behind the most important tool in data
science". Quartz. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
6. ^ "pandas.date_range – pandas 1.0.0 documentation". pandas. 29
January 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
7. ^ "Python Data Analysis Library – pandas: Python Data Analysis
Library". pandas. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
8. ^ https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/io.html
9. ^ https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-
docs/stable/user_guide/merging.html
10. ^ https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-
docs/stable/user_guide/reshaping.html
11. ^ https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-
docs/stable/user_guide/indexing.html
12. ^ "NumFOCUS – pandas: a fiscally sponsored
project". NumFOCUS. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
13. ^ "pandas - Python Data Analysis Library". pandas.pydata.org.
Retrieved 29 September 2021.

Further reading[edit]
 McKinney, Wes (2017). Python for Data Analysis : Data
Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy, and IPython (2nd ed.).
Sebastopol: O'Reilly. ISBN 978-1-4919-5766-0.
 Molin, Stefanie (2019). Hands-On Data Analysis with
Pandas: Efficiently perform data collection, wrangling,
analysis, and visualization using Python.
Packt. ISBN 978-1-7896-1532-6.
 Chen, Daniel Y. (2018). Pandas for Everyone : Python
Data Analysis. Boston: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-13-
454693-3.
 VanderPlas, Jake (2016). "Data Manipulations with
Pandas". Python Data Science Handbook: Essential
Tools for Working with Data. O'Reilly. pp. 97–
216. ISBN 978-1-4919-1205-8.
 Pathak, Chankey (2018). Pandas Cookbook. pp. 1–8.