Stop using inplace=True in Pandas!

Lots of Pandas users think that inplace=True is a great way to save memory, to make their queries more efficient, or generally to be better. But none of these is true. Moreover, inplace=True is going away in the future. So if you're using it, you should stop! In this video, I demonstrate what inplace=True means and does, what you can (should) do instead, and some of the methods that are affected.

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