Python and Pandas offer many features you can’t get from spreadsheets alone. For one, they let you automate your work with data and make the results reproducible.

Stefanie Molin's new book, “Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas" is about using the powerful pandas library to get started with machine learning in Python.

One of the most popular tools in the discipline, pandas is used by millions of data scientists. Still, the free software can become unusable when it comes to the large datasets that are now the norm.