title: Converting Django QuerySet to pandas DataFrame
body: <p>I am going to convert a Django QuerySet to a pandas <code>DataFrame</code> as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>qs = SomeModel.objects.select_related().filter(date__year=2012)
  q = qs.values('date', 'OtherField')
  df = pd.DataFrame.from_records(q)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It works, but is there a more efficient way?</p>