<story><title>Bonobo – A data processing toolkit for Python 3.5+</title><url>https://www.bonobo-project.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spangry</author><text>I haven&amp;#x27;t tried this yet, but am praying that it delivers even half of what it promises. For whatever reason I &lt;i&gt;just can&amp;#x27;t get my head around pandas&lt;/i&gt;, despite multiple attempts.&lt;p&gt;If this also turns out to be inscrutable I may be forced to conclude that I&amp;#x27;m stupid...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BeetleB</author><text>&amp;gt;For whatever reason I just can&amp;#x27;t get my head around pandas, despite multiple attempts.&lt;p&gt;You need to work with pandas consistently for a month or two, and then it&amp;#x27;ll all click.&lt;p&gt;pandas is not complex, nor deep. It is, however, very broad. Most of the time it is &amp;quot;Here&amp;#x27;s what I need to do. I&amp;#x27;m &lt;i&gt;sure&lt;/i&gt; there&amp;#x27;s an API or two in pandas that will let me do this,&amp;quot; and then you spend an hour or so looking at the documentation to find those APIs.&lt;p&gt;My first month or two was: &amp;quot;I need to do this. Let me Google&amp;quot;. Pretty much every time someone had asked that same question on SO.&lt;p&gt;If you stick to it for 2 months, you&amp;#x27;ll eventually &amp;quot;learn&amp;quot; all the routine tasks and Googling stuff becomes only occasional.&lt;p&gt;And it does help if you&amp;#x27;re familiar with NumPy.</text></comment>
<story><title>Bonobo – A data processing toolkit for Python 3.5+</title><url>https://www.bonobo-project.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spangry</author><text>I haven&amp;#x27;t tried this yet, but am praying that it delivers even half of what it promises. For whatever reason I &lt;i&gt;just can&amp;#x27;t get my head around pandas&lt;/i&gt;, despite multiple attempts.&lt;p&gt;If this also turns out to be inscrutable I may be forced to conclude that I&amp;#x27;m stupid...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxerickson</author><text>What have you wanted to use it for?&lt;p&gt;Pandas is basically an R data frame for Python. A sloppy description of that is a text mode spreadsheet.&lt;p&gt;The description of Bonobo doesn&amp;#x27;t immediately invite the comparison to Pandas, to me anyway.</text></comment>