James Powell
James Powell serves on the board of NumFOCUS as co-Chairman and Vice President. NumFOCUS is the 501(c)(3) non-profit that supports all the major tools in the Python data analysis ecosystem (incl. pandas, numpy, jupyter, matplotlib, and others.) At NumFOCUS, he helps build global open source communities for data scientists, data engineers, and business analysis. He helps NumFOCUS run the PyData conference series and has sat on speaker selection and organizing committees for over two dozen conferences. James is also a prolific speaker: since 2013, he has given over seventy conference talks at over fifty Python events worldwide.
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You use pandas every day. You know every keyword argument on every function, even .melt! You even know whether it's .rename, .rename_axis, or .set_axis that you want—and you get it right on the first try! So why bother learning Python? Sure, pandas is written in it, but outside of assembling parts of the pandas API, what's there that has any value in your life?