Pandas vs Dask vs Datatable: A Performance Comparison for processing CSV files

Pandas might not be the best option anymore

Xiaoxu Gao
Towards Data Science
6 min readJul 12, 2022

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When it comes to processing CSV files, the first tool that appears in everyone’s mind is pandas. There is no doubt that pandas is a great framework, the dataframe provides an extremely streamlined form of data representation that helps us to analyze and…

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