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What’s New in Pandas 1.0? 🐼
Everything you need to know to be smarter than your average bear
The pandas development team just officially release pandas version 1.0.0 on Jan. 29, 2020. In this article, I’ll answer your burning questions, discuss the major changes, and show you how to start using the new version today. 😀
Note, this article has been update to reflect the official release. 🎉
Pandas
Pandas is the most popular Python library for cleaning, exploring, and manipulating data. It adds named rows and columns to NumPy’s ndarray data structure. And it adds many convenience methods that make working with data easier. Pandas is a big part of the reason Python has become the dominant language for data scientists and data engineers.
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This is 1.0 we’re talking about. Is this a big deal with lots of major changes?
Not really. The 1.0 label doesn’t signify a massive departure from 0.25.3, the stable version as of January 22, 2020 (when this article was originally written). As you’ll see, there aren’t that many big changes.
The 1.0 release also doesn’t signify that the language has reached a major maturation point. Pandas is a…
