I don't think SO questions is the best way to gauge the popularity of a language and especially not a package. I big reason why Pandas is so popular is because

I don't think SO questions is the best way to gauge the popularity of a language and especially not a package. I big reason why Pandas is so popular is because its API is so complicated. I probably have 10x more experience using Pandas than Django. And yet, when I'm doing something in Pandas I'm visiting the documentation far more often than Django. Let's compare the top level APIs: >>> import pandas as pd >>> len(dir(pd)) 177 >>> import django >>> len(dir(django)) 11 Also, I find the data manipulation Pandas provides is far inferior to the R Hadleyverse and is one of the few things that R does better than Python.