EPISODE 04

The Accidental Gift

The Science Invasion · 2001–2015

A quant desk at AQR Capital, 2008.

Wes McKinney, frustrated with the tools, starts a side project to wrangle financial tables in Python. He calls it pandas.

The World

The Pressure

The Response

The Fight

From:
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Subject:
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Kaggle tilt date range (2010–2015)[VERIFY]

Why Your Code Looks Like This

Sources

  • Oliphant’s NumPy unification writings — SOURCE-NEEDED
  • Pérez’s IPython origin post — SOURCE-NEEDED
  • McKinney’s pandas history talks — SOURCE-NEEDED
  • PEP 465 — SOURCE-NEEDED