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pandas-dev/pandas

Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/pandas-dev/pandas · homepage · Python · BSD-3-Clause (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

93/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 82
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 40.5
  • age_days: 5854
  • days_rel: 42
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 11

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

49564 stars · 20290 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

pandas is a fast, flexible Python library providing labeled data structures like the DataFrame for practical, real-world data analysis and manipulation. It offers tools for reading/writing many formats, missing-data handling, group-by aggregation, merging/joining, reshaping, and rich time series functionality.

Use cases

  • analyze csv data in python
  • clean and transform messy tabular data
  • group by and aggregate a dataset
  • work with time series data in python
  • read excel files into a dataframe
  • merge and join multiple datasets
  • handle missing values in a dataset

When to choose

  • you need labeled, relational-style data structures in Python similar to R data.frames
  • you are doing exploratory data analysis, cleaning, or preparation for machine learning
  • you need robust time series handling, pivoting, and group-by operations
  • you need to read and write CSV, Excel, SQL, HDF5, and other formats

When to avoid

  • you need distributed or out-of-core processing of datasets larger than memory (consider Dask, Spark, or Polars)
  • you need strict type safety or maximum raw performance for simple numeric arrays (NumPy may suffice)
  • you are building a production data pipeline where a database or dataframe engine like Polars/DuckDB fits better

Facets

library · maturity stable

data-science etl csv json date-time math analytics data-science analytics data-visualization machine-learning python cross-platform dataframe data-wrangling time-series statistics tabular-data excel sql data-engineering

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Member repositories

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pandas-dev/pandasmain93

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