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Excel-like functionality with Python pandas: The Data Lab takes the Pepsi Challenge!

Technical Skills 17/11/2017

Happy Birthday Excel! I would posit that the world’s most used data science software is the ubiquitous Microsoft Excel. Released for Windows in November 1987, this month marks its 30th anniversary. In that time I’d imagine it has been employed by all manner of people across near all industries: from the fund manager tracking his […]

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