Presented at BayPiggies by Chang She and Andy Hayden. pandas is used by many people to make their lives easier when analyzing data. This talk is centered around how the overarching goal of user productivity has driven the balance of API development and performance optimization. We will cover some pandas basics. We'll talk about pandas performance. And we'll discuss data structures and algorithms. Along the way, we'll cover best practices and tools useful for developing open source projects. Chang She is the CTO/co-founder of DataPad. A pythonista and recovering financial quant, Chang was a core contributor to pandas prior to co-founding DataPad. Chang is passionate about creating better data tools to make knowledge workers more productive. Andy is a core contributor to pandas and holds the dubious accolade of having answered the most pandas-related questions on Stack Overflow. Andy is an analyst and software engineer from the UK, turned Data Scientist in CA, and is enthusiastic about making data tools easy. ipython notebooks available here: https://www.wakari.io/sharing/bundle/hayd/baypiggies https://www.wakari.io/sharing/bundle/hayd/vbench https://www.wakari.io/sharing/bundle/hayd/pandorable