This is part 1 in my series on writing modern idiomatic pandas. Modern Pandas Method Chaining Indexes Fast Pandas Tidy Data Visualization Time Series Scaling Effective Pandas Introduction This series is about how to make effective use of pandas, a data analysis library for the Python programming language. It’s targeted at an intermediate level: people who have some experience with pandas, but are looking to improve. Prior Art There are many great resources for learning pandas; this is not o...