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Production Data Engineering: Pandas Vectorization & Missing Data Imputation

Master high-throughput Pandas DataFrame manipulation, vectorization, memory optimization, and missing value strategies.

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Learning Objective: Optimize Pandas DataFrame operations using vectorization over .apply() loops and handle missing data using domain-specific imputations.

Intuition & Big Picture

Pandas DataFrames are backed by C-contiguous NumPy array buffers. Operating vectorized mathematical primitives allows CPU SIMD instruction sets to execute batch calculations at maximum C speeds.

Anil's Insight: Avoid iterating row-by-row with iterrows()! It is up to 500x slower than vectorized operations because iterrows() creates a new pd.Series object for every single row!

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400 font-semibold">import pandas 400 font-semibold">as pd
400 font-semibold">import numpy 400 font-semibold">as np

df = pd.400">DataFrame({'Dept': ['Eng', 'Eng', 'Sales'], 'Exp': [2.5, np.nan, 5.0], 'Salary': [85000, 92000, 65000]})
df['Exp'] = df.400">groupby('Dept')['Exp'].400">transform(400 font-semibold">lambda g: g.400">fillna(g.400">median()))
df['Salary_Per_Exp'] = df['Salary'] / df['Exp']
400 font-semibold">print(df)

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400 font-semibold">import pandas 400 font-semibold">as pd 400 font-semibold">import numpy 400 font-semibold">as np df = pd.400">DataFrame({'Dept': ['Eng', 'Eng', 'Sales'], 'Exp': [2.5, np.nan, 5.0], 'Salary': [85000, 92000, 65000]}) df['Exp'] = df.400">groupby('Dept')['Exp'].400">transform(400 font-semibold">lambda g: g.400">fillna(g.400">median())) df['Salary_Per_Exp'] = df['Salary'] / df['Exp'] 400 font-semibold">print(df)

Production Data Engineering: Pandas Vectorization & Missing Data Imputation

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