Well, we believe pandas’ use of pyarrow by default is the right choice. We found it to be more reliable than fastparquet. For example, when trying to save and then immediately read df2, fastparquet complained about an overflow. Below is a table with read/write durations and the resulting ...
For example, if protein is preferentially eliminated relative to fat and carbohydrate, the percentage contribution of protein to macronutrients in the feces would be higher than its contribution to macronutrients in the food. Our analysis showed that the percentage contribution of protein to ...
The examples you’ve explored here are fairly straightforward but illustrate how the proper application of pandas features can make vast improvements to runtime and code readability to boot. Here are a few rules of thumb that you can apply next time you’re working with large data sets in pan...