While processing data with pandas, it is quite common to perform a user-defined function on every row of a DataFrame. The typical way to do it is to use the method apply. This article will focus on the method apply with axis=1, which evaluates a function on every row. The axis=0 version evaluates a function on each column but does not suffer from performance issues as pandas dataframes are internally stored column-wise using NumPy arrays.
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