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Thuwarakesh Murallie
Thuwarakesh Murallie

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How to Work With Large Pandas Dataframes and Limited Memory.

Few Pandas users take advantage of this amazing tweak.

The default configuration when you read a dataframe is suitable for smaller datasets. But for larger datasets, you'd soon need more memory.

This post describes compressing your dataframes to fit in your memory without losing any information. Do this and tap into the full potential of your computer.

A Little Pandas Hack to Handle Large Datasets with Limited Memory

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