elligent label-based slicing, fancy indexing, and subsetting of large
    data sets.
  - Intuitive merging and joining data sets.
  - Flexible reshaping and pivoting of data sets.
  - Hierarchical labeling of axes (possible to have multiple labels per tick).
  - Robust IO tools for loading data from flat files (CSV and delimited),
    Excel files, databases, and saving/loading data from the ultrafast HDF5
    format.
  - Time series-specific functionality: date range generation and frequency
    conversion, moving window statistics, date shifting and lagging.
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