Why You Should Not Read CSVs with Pandas

Pandas adheres to a single-core computation, which makes its operations extremely inefficient, especially on large datasets.

The "datatable" library in Python is an excellent alternative with a Pandas-like API. Its multi-threaded data processing support makes it faster than Pandas.

The snippet demonstrates the run-time comparison of creating a "Pandas DataFrame" from a CSV using Pandas and Datatable.