The pandas Ecosystem

While the pandas library offers an impressive array of features, its popularity owes much to the vast amount of third-party libraries that work with it in a complementary fashion. We cannot hope to cover all of those libraries in this chapter, nor can we even dive too deep into how any individual library works. However, just knowing these tools exist and understanding what they offer can serve as a great inspiration for future learning.

While pandas is an amazing tool, it has its flaws, which we have tried to highlight throughout this book; pandas cannot hope to solve every analytical problem there is. I strongly encourage you to get familiar with the tools outlined in this chapter and to also refer to the pandas ecosystem documentation (https://pandas.pydata.org/about/) when looking for new and specialized tools.

As a technical note on this chapter, it is possible that these code blocks may break or change behavior as new releases of the libraries are...