How to Speed up Pandas by 4x with one line of code

By KDnuggets - 2021-03-14

Description

While Pandas is the library for data processing in Python, it isn't really built for speed. Learn more about the new library, Modin, developed to distribute Pandas' computation to speedup your data pr ...

Summary

  • While Pandas is the library for data processing in Python, it isn't really built for speed.
  • A Pandas DataFrame (left) is stored as one block and is only sent to one CPU core.
  • import ray ray.init(num_cpus=4) import modin.pandas as pd When working with big data, it’s not uncommon for the size of the dataset to exceed the amount of memory (RAM) on your system.

 

Topics

  1. Coding (0.26)
  2. Backend (0.21)
  3. Database (0.09)

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