Pandas vs. SQL — Part 2: Pandas Is More Concise

Pandas vs. SQL — Part 2: Pandas Is More Concise

Co-authored with Mahesh Vashishtha

tl;dr: In this post, we compare Pandas vs. SQL on the first of three axes: conciseness. We discuss 10 operations that are much more straightforward in Pandas than in SQL, spanning data cleaning, machine learning, feature engineering, linear algebra, and spreadsheet functions.

In our previous post we discussed how Pandas dataframes are much like a food court, while databases offering …

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