<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false">Pandas provides robust tools for reading and writing various formats, crucial for quantitative finance.Data cleaning is essential in quantitative research as flawed data leads to flawed results.Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) in Pandas helps in building market intuition using descriptive statistics and data visualization.Proficiency in both Matplotlib and Seaborn is key for a quant, with Matplotlib for custom plots and Seaborn for statistical insights.