title: Making Dataframe Analysis faster
body: <p>I am using three dataframes to analyze sequential numeric data - basically numeric data captured in time. There are 8 columns, and 360k entries. I created three identical dataframes - one is the raw data, the second a "scratch pad" for analysis and a third dataframe contains the analyzed outcome. This runs really slowly. I'm wondering if there are ways to make this analysis run faster? Would it be faster if instead of three separate 8 column dataframes I had one large one 24 column dataframe?</p>