Yeah, I think for your audience, pandas makes total sense! When I first started using it, it was through an ambitiously large project with tons of gaps in data,

Yeah, I think for your audience, pandas makes total sense! When I first started using it, it was through an ambitiously large project with tons of gaps in data, untype-able text for 1% of rows, didn't fit in memory.. etc. So my personal experience is a bit tainted by putting myself through a hell that could have solved sooner by spending more time learning instead of bashing my keyboard with a hammer.