5 Pandas Tricks You Should Start Using in 2021
Start using Pandas the way it is intended to be used. Use these 5 tricks to improve pandas code.
5 min readJun 23, 2021
If you ever worked with pandas, you’re most probably familiar with the richness of pandas library. Pandas enables us to achieve the same goal in multiple ways by using different functions.
The downside of this “richness” is that many of us learned the wrong approach which is hacky, error-prone and might even be deprecated in the future.
In this article, I show 5 pandas tips that will show you the proper way of performing basic operations with pandas.
Intro
Before we start, let’s create a sample DataFrame on which these tips are based:
import pandas as pddf = pd.DataFrame({"col1": ["A0", "A1", "A0", "A2", "A0", "A1"]})
