While building a marketing dashboard, you receive newline-delimited JSON files where each record contains a nested "events" list and a "device" dictionary. You need to convert these nested structures into one flat, tabular DataFrame so the results can be loaded directly into a relational table-without writing custom loops or manual parsing code. Which pandas function provides the most straightforward way to perform this flattening step in Python?
pandas.json_normalize is purpose-built to transform semi-structured or deeply nested JSON data into a flat, two-dimensional DataFrame. It automatically traverses dictionaries and lists, creating column headers that reflect the nested path. melt reshapes existing DataFrames from wide to long format, pivot_table summarizes data through aggregation, and read_html imports HTML tables-none of these functions flatten nested JSON. Therefore, json_normalize is the correct choice.
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