In this chapter, we gained an understanding of the limitations of using vanilla Python and its built-in data structures. We acquainted ourselves with the Pandas library and learned how it overcomes the aforementioned difficulties by giving us access to extremely powerful and easy-to-use data structures. We then explored the two main data structures, Series and DataFrame, by analyzing our movies-metadata dataset.
In the next chapter, we will use our newfound skills to build an IMDB Top 250 Clone and its variant, a type of knowledge-based recommender.