Efficient Pandas: Apply vs Vectorized Operations

Time and efficiency matters

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Towards Data Science
3 min readJan 15, 2021

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Pandas is one of the most commonly used data analysis and manipulation libraries in data science ecosystem. It offers plenty of functions and methods to perform efficient operations.

What I like most about Pandas is that there are almost always multiple ways to accomplish a given task. However, we should…

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