Alternatives to CSV to Speed Up Your Pandas DataFrames

Save time by switching to Feather and Parquet

Donato Riccio
4 min readNov 5, 2023

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If you work with Pandas and large datasets in Python, you may have noticed that loading and saving data can become quite slow. Pandas dataframes are powerful, but reading and writing them from disk in formats like CSV can be a bottleneck, especially for big data tasks.

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