Pandas Vs Numpy

Indeed, pandas provides high level data manipulation tools built on top of NumPy. NumPy by itself is a fairly low-level tool, and will be very much similar to using MATLAB. pandas on the other hand provides rich time series functionality, data alignment, NA-friendly statistics, groupby, merge and join methods, and lots of other conveniences. It has become very popular in recent years in financial applications. I will have a chapter dedicated to financial data analysis using pandas in my upcoming book.