diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 786778761be..9ff79b471b4 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 Modin
 =====
 
+.. image:: https://travis-ci.com/modin-project/modin.svg?branch=master
+    :target: https://travis-ci.com/modin-project/modin
+
+.. image:: //readthedocs.org/projects/modin/badge/?version=latest
+    :target: https://modin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest
+    :alt: Documentation Status
+
+
+
 Pandas on Ray
 -------------
 
diff --git a/modin/dataframe/__init__.py b/modin/dataframe/__init__.py
index d71ac1e3d84..379997a4b7c 100644
--- a/modin/dataframe/__init__.py
+++ b/modin/dataframe/__init__.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 from __future__ import division
 from __future__ import print_function
 
-import pandas
 # TODO: In the future `set_option` or similar needs to run on every node
 # in order to keep all pandas instances across nodes consistent
 from pandas import (eval, unique, value_counts, cut, to_numeric, factorize,
@@ -12,14 +11,6 @@
                     set_option, NaT, PeriodIndex, Categorical)
 import threading
 
-pandas_version = pandas.__version__
-pandas_major = int(pandas_version.split(".")[0])
-pandas_minor = int(pandas_version.split(".")[1])
-
-if pandas_major == 0 and pandas_minor != 22:
-    raise Exception("In order to use Pandas on Ray, your pandas version must "
-                    "be 0.22. You can run 'pip install pandas==0.22'")
-
 DEFAULT_NPARTITIONS = 8
 
 
@@ -34,13 +25,13 @@ def get_npartitions():
 
 # We import these file after above two function
 # because they depend on npartitions.
+from .concat import concat  # noqa: 402
 from .dataframe import DataFrame  # noqa: 402
+from .datetimes import to_datetime  # noqa: 402
 from .io import (read_csv, read_parquet, read_json, read_html,  # noqa: 402
                  read_clipboard, read_excel, read_hdf, read_feather,  # noqa: 402
                  read_msgpack, read_stata, read_sas, read_pickle,  # noqa: 402
                  read_sql)  # noqa: 402
-from .concat import concat  # noqa: 402
-from .datetimes import to_datetime  # noqa: 402
 from .reshape import get_dummies  # noqa: 402
 
 __all__ = [
diff --git a/modin/dataframe/concat.py b/modin/dataframe/concat.py
index d0d6f8fb5db..c292d27c608 100644
--- a/modin/dataframe/concat.py
+++ b/modin/dataframe/concat.py
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@
 from __future__ import print_function
 
 import pandas
+
 import numpy as np
+
 from .dataframe import DataFrame
 from .utils import _reindex_helper
 
diff --git a/modin/dataframe/dataframe.py b/modin/dataframe/dataframe.py
index f0288a9dc37..88452149a71 100644
--- a/modin/dataframe/dataframe.py
+++ b/modin/dataframe/dataframe.py
@@ -3,49 +3,48 @@
 from __future__ import print_function
 
 import pandas
-import functools
 from pandas.api.types import is_scalar
-from pandas.util._validators import validate_bool_kwarg
-from pandas.core.index import _ensure_index_from_sequences
-from pandas._libs import lib
-from pandas.core.dtypes.cast import maybe_upcast_putmask
-from pandas import compat
 from pandas.compat import lzip, to_str, string_types, cPickle as pkl
 import pandas.core.common as com
+from pandas.core.dtypes.cast import maybe_upcast_putmask
 from pandas.core.dtypes.common import (
+    _get_dtype_from_object,
     is_bool_dtype,
     is_list_like,
     is_numeric_dtype,
-    is_timedelta64_dtype,
-    _get_dtype_from_object)
+    is_timedelta64_dtype)
+from pandas.core.index import _ensure_index_from_sequences
 from pandas.core.indexing import check_bool_indexer
 from pandas.errors import MergeError
+from pandas.util._validators import validate_bool_kwarg
+from pandas._libs import lib
 
-import warnings
+import itertools
+import io
+import functools
 import numpy as np
 from numpy.testing import assert_equal
 import ray
-import itertools
-import io
-import sys
 import re
+import sys
+import warnings
 
 from .utils import (
-    _deploy_func,
-    _map_partitions,
-    _partition_pandas_dataframe,
     to_pandas,
-    create_blocks_helper,
     _blocks_to_col,
     _blocks_to_row,
+    _compile_remote_dtypes,
+    _concat_index,
+    _co_op_helper,
     _create_block_partitions,
+    _create_blocks_helper,
+    _deploy_func,
+    _fix_blocks_dimensions,
     _inherit_docstrings,
-    _reindex_helper,
-    _co_op_helper,
+    _map_partitions,
     _match_partitioning,
-    _concat_index,
-    fix_blocks_dimensions,
-    _compile_remote_dtypes)
+    _partition_pandas_dataframe,
+    _reindex_helper)
 from . import get_npartitions
 from .index_metadata import _IndexMetadata
 from .iterator import PartitionIterator
@@ -126,7 +125,7 @@ def __init__(self, data=None, index=None, columns=None, dtype=None,
                 # put in numpy array here to make accesses easier since it's 2D
                 self._block_partitions = np.array(block_partitions)
                 self._block_partitions = \
-                    fix_blocks_dimensions(self._block_partitions, axis)
+                    _fix_blocks_dimensions(self._block_partitions, axis)
 
             else:
                 if row_partitions is not None:
@@ -658,7 +657,7 @@ def groupby(self, by=None, axis=0, level=None, as_index=True, sort=True,
         axis = pandas.DataFrame()._get_axis_number(axis)
         if callable(by):
             by = by(self.index)
-        elif isinstance(by, compat.string_types):
+        elif isinstance(by, string_types):
             by = self.__getitem__(by).values.tolist()
         elif is_list_like(by):
             if isinstance(by, pandas.Series):
@@ -955,7 +954,7 @@ def _aggregate(self, arg, *args, **kwargs):
             _axis = getattr(self, 'axis', 0)
         kwargs.pop('_level', None)
 
-        if isinstance(arg, compat.string_types):
+        if isinstance(arg, string_types):
             return self._string_function(arg, *args, **kwargs)
 
         # Dictionaries have complex behavior because they can be renamed here.
@@ -972,7 +971,7 @@ def _aggregate(self, arg, *args, **kwargs):
             raise ValueError("type {} is not callable".format(type(arg)))
 
     def _string_function(self, func, *args, **kwargs):
-        assert isinstance(func, compat.string_types)
+        assert isinstance(func, string_types)
 
         f = getattr(self, func, None)
 
@@ -1187,7 +1186,7 @@ def apply(self, func, axis=0, broadcast=False, raw=False, reduce=None,
         """
         axis = pandas.DataFrame()._get_axis_number(axis)
 
-        if isinstance(func, compat.string_types):
+        if isinstance(func, string_types):
             if axis == 1:
                 kwds['axis'] = axis
             return getattr(self, func)(*args, **kwds)
@@ -1231,7 +1230,7 @@ def apply(self, func, axis=0, broadcast=False, raw=False, reduce=None,
                                        self._col_partitions)
 
             # resolve function names for the DataFrame index
-            new_index = [f_name if isinstance(f_name, compat.string_types)
+            new_index = [f_name if isinstance(f_name, string_types)
                          else f_name.__name__ for f_name in func]
             return DataFrame(col_partitions=new_cols,
                              columns=self.columns,
@@ -5396,7 +5395,7 @@ def reindex_helper(old_index, new_index, axis, npartitions, method, fill_value,
     df = df.reindex(new_index, copy=False, axis=axis ^ 1,
                     method=method, fill_value=fill_value,
                     limit=limit, tolerance=tolerance)
-    return create_blocks_helper(df, npartitions, axis)
+    return _create_blocks_helper(df, npartitions, axis)
 
 
 @ray.remote
diff --git a/modin/dataframe/datetimes.py b/modin/dataframe/datetimes.py
index 48a437cebc7..a97d268b395 100644
--- a/modin/dataframe/datetimes.py
+++ b/modin/dataframe/datetimes.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 from __future__ import print_function
 
 import pandas
+
 import ray
 
 from .dataframe import DataFrame
diff --git a/modin/dataframe/groupby.py b/modin/dataframe/groupby.py
index 39862d94da2..888621adfce 100644
--- a/modin/dataframe/groupby.py
+++ b/modin/dataframe/groupby.py
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 from __future__ import print_function
 
 import pandas
-import numpy as np
 import pandas.core.groupby
 from pandas.core.dtypes.common import is_list_like
 import pandas.core.common as com
 
+import numpy as np
 import ray
 
 from .utils import _inherit_docstrings, _reindex_helper
diff --git a/modin/dataframe/index_metadata.py b/modin/dataframe/index_metadata.py
index 62bea3f0e89..76f5ea02f24 100644
--- a/modin/dataframe/index_metadata.py
+++ b/modin/dataframe/index_metadata.py
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+from __future__ import division
+from __future__ import print_function
+
 import pandas
+
 import numpy as np
 import ray
 
diff --git a/modin/dataframe/indexing.py b/modin/dataframe/indexing.py
index 2fa2e1e8d2c..9f452b9622e 100644
--- a/modin/dataframe/indexing.py
+++ b/modin/dataframe/indexing.py
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+from __future__ import division
+from __future__ import print_function
+
+import pandas
+from pandas.api.types import (is_scalar, is_list_like, is_bool)
+from pandas.core.dtypes.common import is_integer
+from pandas.core.indexing import IndexingError
+
+import numpy as np
+import ray
+from warnings import warn
+
+from .utils import (_blocks_to_col, _get_nan_block_id, extractor,
+                    _mask_block_partitions, writer)
+from .index_metadata import _IndexMetadata
+from .dataframe import DataFrame
+
 """Indexing Helper Class works as follows:
 
 _Location_Indexer_Base provide methods framework for __getitem__
@@ -13,19 +31,6 @@
 An illustration is available at
 https://github.com/ray-project/ray/pull/1955#issuecomment-386781826
 """
-import pandas
-import numpy as np
-import ray
-from warnings import warn
-
-from pandas.api.types import (is_scalar, is_list_like, is_bool)
-from pandas.core.dtypes.common import is_integer
-from pandas.core.indexing import IndexingError
-
-from .utils import (_blocks_to_col, _get_nan_block_id, extractor,
-                    _mask_block_partitions, writer)
-from .index_metadata import _IndexMetadata
-from .dataframe import DataFrame
 
 
 def is_slice(x): return isinstance(x, slice)
diff --git a/modin/dataframe/io.py b/modin/dataframe/io.py
index 8b1bdbb4eef..d51645a39fb 100644
--- a/modin/dataframe/io.py
+++ b/modin/dataframe/io.py
@@ -2,16 +2,15 @@
 from __future__ import division
 from __future__ import print_function
 
+import pandas
+from pandas.io.common import _infer_compression
+
 from itertools import chain
 from io import BytesIO
 import os
+from pyarrow.parquet import ParquetFile
 import re
 import warnings
-import pandas
-
-from pyarrow.parquet import ParquetFile
-from pandas.io.common import _infer_compression  # don't depend on internal API
-
 
 from .dataframe import ray, DataFrame
 from . import get_npartitions
diff --git a/modin/dataframe/iterator.py b/modin/dataframe/iterator.py
index b26d1cf465b..78a2af5e6b1 100644
--- a/modin/dataframe/iterator.py
+++ b/modin/dataframe/iterator.py
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+from __future__ import division
+from __future__ import print_function
+
 from collections import Iterator
 
 
diff --git a/modin/dataframe/reshape.py b/modin/dataframe/reshape.py
index 1883f11b78d..9ba791ab90a 100644
--- a/modin/dataframe/reshape.py
+++ b/modin/dataframe/reshape.py
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 from __future__ import division
 from __future__ import print_function
 
-import ray
 import pandas
-import numpy as np
-
 from pandas import compat
 from pandas.core.dtypes.common import is_list_like
+
 from itertools import cycle
+import ray
+import numpy as np
 
 from .dataframe import DataFrame
 from .utils import _deploy_func
diff --git a/modin/dataframe/series.py b/modin/dataframe/series.py
index aa102363d70..bc663e9a77c 100644
--- a/modin/dataframe/series.py
+++ b/modin/dataframe/series.py
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@
 from __future__ import division
 from __future__ import print_function
 
-import numpy as np
 import pandas
 
+import numpy as np
+
 from .utils import _inherit_docstrings
 
 
diff --git a/modin/dataframe/utils.py b/modin/dataframe/utils.py
index 48547f910e6..2b2821e3135 100644
--- a/modin/dataframe/utils.py
+++ b/modin/dataframe/utils.py
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 from __future__ import division
 from __future__ import print_function
 
-import collections
 import pandas
+
+import collections
 import numpy as np
 import ray
 
@@ -371,15 +372,15 @@ def _create_block_partitions(partitions, axis=0, length=None):
     # Sometimes we only get a single column or row, which is
     # problematic for building blocks from the partitions, so we
     # add whatever dimension we're missing from the input.
-    return fix_blocks_dimensions(blocks, axis)
+    return _fix_blocks_dimensions(blocks, axis)
 
 
 @ray.remote
 def create_blocks(df, npartitions, axis):
-    return create_blocks_helper(df, npartitions, axis)
+    return _create_blocks_helper(df, npartitions, axis)
 
 
-def create_blocks_helper(df, npartitions, axis):
+def _create_blocks_helper(df, npartitions, axis):
     # Single partition dataframes don't need to be repartitioned
     if npartitions == 1:
         return df
@@ -479,7 +480,7 @@ def _reindex_helper(old_index, new_index, axis, npartitions, *df):
         df.columns = old_index
 
     df = df.reindex(new_index, copy=False, axis=axis ^ 1)
-    return create_blocks_helper(df, npartitions, axis)
+    return _create_blocks_helper(df, npartitions, axis)
 
 
 @ray.remote
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@ def _co_op_helper(func, left_columns, right_columns, left_df_len, left_idx,
 
     new_rows = func(left, right)
 
-    new_blocks = create_blocks_helper(new_rows, left_df_len, 0)
+    new_blocks = _create_blocks_helper(new_rows, left_df_len, 0)
 
     if left_idx is not None:
         new_blocks.append(new_rows.index)
@@ -563,7 +564,7 @@ def _concat_index(*index_parts):
     return index_parts[0].append(index_parts[1:])
 
 
-def fix_blocks_dimensions(blocks, axis):
+def _fix_blocks_dimensions(blocks, axis):
     """Checks that blocks is 2D, and adds a dimension if not.
     """
     if blocks.ndim < 2: