Here's a very similar tool in Ruby. https://github.com/hopsoft/goldmine

... and let me guess: you wrote it! :)

This guys has a lot of nice material, presented in a clear and approachable way (this week I was teaching Python and I was linking him a lot).

For example:

http://pbpython.com/visualization-tools-1.html

http://pbpython.com/web-scraping-mn-budget.html

Nice blog too - lots of useful articles - makes we want to spend the rest of a beautiful Sunday indoors hacking

Unreal, I have been wrestling with this for weeks. Manna from heaven!

Can anyone explain the different between pivot() and pivot_tables()?

Anyone hitting an error for:

table.query('Status == ["pending","won"]')

AttributeError: 'Categorical' object has no attribute 'flags'

Maybe that's true for their target audience. I suppose broadly speaking most people never used Excel. Also, most people never -- or very seldomly -- use computers.

If you're talking globally that's true, but do you think that's still true for modern industrialized nations? (USA/Canada/Western Europe/Japan/etc.)