How to make your Pandas operation 100x faster

A practical guide to speeding up your Pandas code

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Pandas is a great tool for exploring and working with data. As such, it is deliberately optimized for versatility and ease of use, instead of performance. There are often many different ways to do the exact same operation, some of which are far more performant than others. This is not a problem if your…