Pandas version checks

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Reproducible Example

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Issue Description

The Dockerfile doesn't contain any direct installation instruction of Pandas. The CI logs shows that it is installed as a dependency of fastparquet.

Collecting pandas>=1.5.0 (from fastparquet>=2024110->-r /tmp/requirements-dev.txt (line 22))

Expected Behavior

Pandas should be explicitly installed from PyPi during the Docker build, or it should be built from source. The latter seems to be the preferred option, as the objective of the Dockerfile is to contribute to pandas.

Edit: Another option is to extend the documentation, adding instructions to build it from source.

Installed Versions

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