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Mar 2022
1h 30m

557: Effective Pandas

Jon Krohn
About this episode

Pandas expert Matt Harrison sits down with Jon Krohn to discuss tips, tricks and best practices for Pandas learning and mastery.


In this episode you will learn:

  • Pros and cons of self-publishing and working with a publisher [5:05]
  • Matt's six tips for using Pandas [17:13]
  • The best way for corporate teams to level up their skills [40:04]
  • How to learn anything effectively [47:14]
  • Matt’s tricks for staying motivated [50:00]
  • Matt’s recommendations for using Git and the Unix command line [1:00:14]
  • Matt’s recommended software libraries for working with tabular data [1:19:45]


Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/557

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