Pandas; teaching 

I wonder what percentage of time spent teaching Pandas to novices is spent teaching them how to ignore or work around the index.

Pandas; teaching 

@gvwilson Probably testable by converting the material to Polars and seeing how much you can cut.

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Pandas; teaching 

@gvwilson @robertkern as someone who just taught a winter course in pandas, I can confidently say that Michael Chow's work on tidyverse-in-Python (mainly the siuba package) meant that my students hardly ever had to deal with the index at all. Maybe I'm teaching pandas wrong? 🤔

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