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Ashish Kumar is a seasoned data science professional, a publisher author and a thought leader in the field of data science and machine learning. An IIT Madras graduate and a Young India Fellow, he has around 7 years of experience in implementing and deploying data science and machine learning solutions for challenging industry problems in both hands-on and leadership roles. Natural Language Procession, IoT Analytics, R Shiny product development, Ensemble ML methods etc. are his core areas of expertise. He is fluent in Python and R and teaches a popular ML course at Simplilearn. When not crunching data, Ashish sneaks off to the next hip beach around and enjoys the company of his Kindle. He also trains and mentors data science aspirants and fledgling start-ups.
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Usage pattern and adoption of pandas

The popularity of Python has skyrocketed over the years, especially after 2012; a lot of this can be attributed to the popularity of pandas. Python-related questions make up around 12% of the total questions asked from high-income countries on Stack Overflow, a popular platform for developers to ask questions and get answers from other people in the community about how to get things done and fix bugs in different programming languages. Given that there are hundreds of programming languages, one language occupying 12% of market share is an extraordinary achievement:

The most popular data analytics tools based on a survey of Kaggle users conducted in 2017-18

According to this survey conducted by Kaggle, 60% of the respondents said that they were aware of or have used Python for their data science jobs.

According to the data recorded by Stack...

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