The Best File Format To Store A Pandas DataFrame

In the image above, you can find the run-time comparison of storing a Pandas DataFrame in various file formats.

Although CSVs are a widely adopted format, it is the slowest format in this list.

Thus, CSVs should be avoided unless you want to open the data outside Python (in Excel, for instance).

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