Pandas is an open source Python package that is most widely used for data science/data analysis and machine learning tasks. It is built on top of another package named Numpy, which provides support for multi-dimensional arrays. As one of the most popular data wrangling packages, Pandas works well with many other data science modules inside the Python ecosystem, and is typically included in every Python distribution, from those that come with your operating system to commercial vendor distributions like ActiveState’s ActivePython. 

Pandas makes it simple to do many of the time consuming, repetitive tasks associated with working with data, including:

In fact, with Pandas, you can do everything that makes world-leading data scientists vote Pandas as the best data analysis and manipulation tool available.