What is Pandas?

Pandas is a Python package that provides data structures and tools for data analysis and manipulation:?

• Data structures
• Pandas provides fast, flexible data structures for working with "relational" or "labeled" data.?
• Data analysis
• Pandas is a powerful, feature-rich library for data analysis in Python. It's a popular tool for data wrangling, which is the process of taking data from unusable or erroneous forms to a structured and quality level for analytics.
• Ease of use
• Pandas is designed to make working with data intuitive and easy. It excels at working with structured data formats like tables, matrices, and time series data.?
• Performance
• Pandas provides optimized performance when back-end source code is written in C or Python.
• Open source
• Pandas is an open-source project.
• Use cases
• Pandas is used in a variety of fields, including healthcare, where it can help clean and organize medical datasets.

The name "Pandas" comes from the econometrics term "panel data", which describes data sets that include observations over multiple time periods.?

Wes McKinney started working on Pandas in 2008 while at AQR Capital Management. He wanted a high performance, flexible tool for performing quantitative analysis on financial data.