The Hardest of Pandas: pivot_table, stack, and unstack Clearly Explained

Author(s): Bex T.

Originally published on Towards AI.

Master these head-scratchers like never before
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While most Pandas expressions read like English, you sometimes face real head-scratchers. Yes, they have intuitive names like cut or pivot but they are seemingly impossible to wrap your head around.

So, I decided to write a series of articles dedicated to what I think are the most difficult Pandas functions. This article will clearly explain the three of them: pivot_table, stack, and unstack.

Let’s roll.

There should be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it.

The above is a quote from the Zen of python. Python wants to have only one obvious solution for… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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