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In this post, we’ll learn about Pandas, a high-performance open-source package for doing data analysis in Python.

We’ll cover:

  • What Pandas is and why should you use it.
  • What a Pandas DataFrame is.
  • Creating and viewing a DataFrame.
  • Manipulating data in a DataFrame.

Vaex: A DataFrame with super strings towardsdatascience.com

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String manipulations are an essential part of Data Science. The latest release of Vaex adds incredibly fast and memory efficient support for all common string manipulations. Compared to Pandas, the most popular DataFrame library in the Python ecosystem, string operations are up to ~30–100x faster on your quadcore laptop, and up to a 1000 times faster on a 32 core machine.

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In this article, we will explore TextBlob, which is another extremely powerful NLP library for Python. TextBlob is built upon NLTK and provides an easy to use interface to the NLTK library. We will see how TextBlob can be used to perform a variety of NLP tasks ranging from parts-of-speech tagging to sentiment analysis, and language translation to text classification.