Pandas is better than nothing, but I would look to R's dplyr/tidyverse for a really well-designed tabular data manipulation ecosystem. Compared to tidyverse, th

Pandas is better than nothing, but I would look to R's dplyr/tidyverse for a really well-designed tabular data manipulation ecosystem. Compared to tidyverse, the pandas API feels bloated, obscure, and inefficient. I often see people using very slow apply-based solutions in pandas because the faster solution is so non-obvious. The tidyverse ironically ends up feeling more Pythonic, with more of a "there is one obvious way to do it" vibe.