5 Common Bottlenecks in pandas Workflows

Fan screaming? Laptop grinding to a halt? You’re probably running pandas on more data than your CPU wants to handle. This post breaks down five common bottlenecks in pandas (slow reads, memory-heavy joins, sluggish groupbys), typical CPU workarounds, and how a one-line cudf.pandas extension unlocks GPU acceleration—with example code and Colab links to try.