So Vector Operations Are Fast, Right?

Posted on Mon 07 August 2017 in Performance • Tagged with pandas, numpy

Recently, for one of the projects we are working on, I was looking at processing data from Pandas panel. I wanted to find out certain items in a Panel based on certain criteria on the minor axis. I worked with two flavors and the findings for different data-sets are quite interesting. Something that would definitely qualify as an interesting learning. We discuss, how profiling can be successfully used to explain certain Performance behavior, that often looks counter-intuitive.


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