chrisclark/PythonForDataScience — pull request #1 by lexual (2012-11-09 03:12:14+00:00)
Title: File parsing improvements.

Hi,

I really enjoyed your tutorial.

Here's a patch that uses Pandas's for file parsing. You might like to update the tutorial with these improvements?

It should parse the csvs 2-3 times faster than numpy. I also think it makes the code more readable.

See:

http://wesmckinney.com/blog/?p=543

http://pandas.pydata.org/

Thanks,

Lex.