Make pandas a non-necessary requirement

[jrapin]

Types of changes

• Docs change / refactoring / dependency upgrade
• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

Motivation and Context / Related issue

How Has This Been Tested (if it applies)

Pandas is only used through the benchmarks

Checklist

• The documentation is up-to-date with the changes I made.
• I have read the CONTRIBUTING document and completed the CLA (see CONTRIBUTING).
• All tests passed, and additional code has been covered with new tests.