Is something better than pandas when the dataset fits the memory?

Explore Vaex, Dask, PySpark, Modin and Julia

Vaclav Dekanovsky
Towards Data Science
10 min readJan 26, 2021

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Pandas and the alternatives — dask, spark, vaex and julia
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The tabular format is still the most typical way how to store data and there’s arguably no better tool how to explore data-tables than python’s pandas. Despite its broad range of capabilities, pandas has limits. In those cases, you have to opt for an alternative. Though, does it…

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