Pandas (software)

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Original author(s) Wes McKinney
Developer(s) Community
Stable release 0.18.0 / March 13, 2016 (2016-03-13)
Written in Python
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Technical computing
License BSD-new 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. Pandas is free software released under the three-clause BSD license.[1] The name is derived from the term "panel data", an econometrics term for multidimensional structured data sets.

Library features

The library is highly optimized for performance, with critical code paths written in Cython or C.[2]

History

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. Around the same time, the library became popular in the Python community, and many more contributors joined the project. The project is considered one of the most vital and active data analysis libraries for Python.

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