What are some uses of Pandas?

Following are some advantages of Pandas:

  • Fast and efficient for manipulating and analyzing data.
  • Data from different file objects can be loaded.
  • Easy handling of missing data (represented as NaN) in floating point as well as non-floating point data
  • Size mutability: columns can be inserted and deleted from DataFrame and higher dimensional objects
  • Data set merging and joining.
  • Flexible reshaping and pivoting of data sets
  • Provides time-series functionality.
  • Powerful group by functionality for performing split-apply-combine operations on data sets.