Hi, do the hands-on exercises in these courses require Pandas knowledge or can I use Polars? I’m specifically looking at the Machine Learning courses. I’ve spend some time learning Python and Polars and don’t really want to spend time learning Pandas now, just to do a course. I’m an ERP consultant (D365 FO, mostly functional but also developed in X++). I’m exploring Machine Learning for some private projects now. Certifications aren’t important to me, I just want to understand how to use it. I’ve gone through some of the free courses on Kaggle but the hand-on excercises always use Pandas and seem outdated. Wasn’t sure where to post a general question like this, hope it’s ok here. Many Thanks!
If you are asking specifically about the three Machine Learning Specialization courses, the code you will need to write uses Python and Numpy. Where Pandas is used, it’s in code that is already provided, so you won’t need to write any code that uses Pandas.
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Thank you for the quick reply! I will go ahead and sign up then 
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