Pandas Pivot Table Explained

[hopsoft]

Here's a very similar tool in Ruby. https://github.com/hopsoft/goldmine

[diegolo]

... and let me guess: you wrote it! :)

[stared]

This guys has a lot of nice material, presented in a clear and approachable way (this week I was teaching Python and I was linking him a lot).

For example:

http://pbpython.com/visualization-tools-1.html

http://pbpython.com/web-scraping-mn-budget.html

[harryf]

Nice blog too - lots of useful articles - makes we want to spend the rest of a beautiful Sunday indoors hacking

[diegolo]

same here ;)

[rrggrr]

Unreal, I have been wrestling with this for weeks. Manna from heaven!

[ced]

Can anyone explain the different between pivot() and pivot_tables()?

[kayaker382]

Anyone hitting an error for:

table.query('Status == ["pending","won"]')

AttributeError: 'Categorical' object has no attribute 'flags'

[tantalor]

Most people likely have experience with pivot tables in Excel.

Uhh, really?

[aflag]

Maybe that's true for their target audience. I suppose broadly speaking most people never used Excel. Also, most people never -- or very seldomly -- use computers.