The Hardest of Pandas: pivot_table, stack, and unstack Clearly Explained

Master these head-scratchers like never before

Bex T.
Towards AI
Published in
6 min readSep 22, 2023

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Introduction

While most Pandas expressions read like English, you sometimes face real head-scratchers. Yes, they have intuitive names like cut or pivot but they are seemingly impossible to wrap your head around.

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