How the pandas facilitate data cleaning faster

How Pandas transformed my data workflow, facilitates coding and why you should also use it

If you have already been stuck in a repetitive coding task, you know how frustrating it can be.

You continue to write the same lines of code again and again, thinking,

“There must be a better way.”

Well, I recently came across a Python module that not only saved me hours of work, but also made my code cleaner and more efficient.

Let me talk to you about it.

A few weeks ago, I was working on a project where I had to process a large set of data.

The data were messy – filled with missing values, incoherent formatting and duplicates.

My job was to clean it, analyze it and generate a report.

It sounds simple, right? But here is the catch:

I had to do it for several data sets, and everyone had their own quirks.

At first, I wrote a script to manage a set of data. It worked, but when I tried to …