Pandas pivot tables, on the other hand, are part of a powerful Python library. They offer more flexibility and can handle bigger datasets efficiently, making them ideal for complex analyses.

Pandas makes it easy to quickly load, manipulate, align, merge, and even visualize data tables directly in Python.

Pivot tables allow us to quickly examine our data by "pivoting" on different variables of interest. Pandas allows us to easily create pivot tables with a built-in .pivot () method.