PANDAS FOR DATA SCIENCE

Pandas Columns: Bracket Indexing (df[‘x’]) Versus Dot Syntax (df.x)

Does it matter how you do it? Maybe one is faster than the other?

The dot syntax is very popular in Python, also in Pandas. Photo by Alejandro Barba on Unsplash

When using Pandas, most data scientists would go for df['x'] or df["x"] — it doesn’t really matter which one you use as long as you stick to whichever you’ve chosen. You can…