If you work with JSON files or nested structures, DataFrames often requires you to "flatten" or normalize the data first. DataKnots handles nesting natively. You can navigate deep into a structure, filter, and aggregate without leaving the pipeline.
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While the difference looks subtle here, DataKnots shines when you need to say, "Find all departments, get their employees, filter employees by salary, and return the average salary per department." In DataFrames , this often requires a groupby and a combine (split-apply-combine). In DataKnots , it is just one continuous pipeline. If you work with JSON files or nested