Pandas is a very powerful library. It allows you to perform complicated operations efficiently with a small amount of code. I saw Wes McKinney speak at a conference recently and he seems like a very smart guy.

I’m also seeing lots of pandas users (often new programmers) write subtly buggy code that they don’t understand. This isn’t a problem with pandas exactly, but these people would probably be unable to write code that ran without using pandas. I’d rather have something that doesn’t run than something that runs but is just a little off.

I’m a very big fan! In fact, if you are a data analyst and try to learn “Python”, you could be watching “Python” videos for a very long time before being able to get up to speed and use it for data analysis. In comparison, if a data analyst were to try to learn “Pandas”, they would be importing and manipulating data tables in a matter of minutes.