Pandas (software)
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| Original author(s) | Wes McKinney |
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| Developer(s) | Community |
| Stable release |
0.19.2 / 24 December 2016
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| Repository | https://github.com/pydata/pandas, https://github.com/pydata/pandas.git |
| Written in | Python |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Technical computing |
| License | BSD-new license |
| Website | pandas |
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. The name is derived from the term "Panel data", an econometrics term for multidimensional structured data sets.
The library is highly optimized for performance, with critical code paths written in Cython or C.
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.
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