diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/FieldCache.test.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/FieldCache.test.ts
index 8d888797a61..d38946bd712 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/FieldCache.test.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/FieldCache.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { FieldCache } from './FieldCache';
-import { toDataFrame } from '../utils';
 import { FieldType } from '../types/dataFrame';
+import { toDataFrame } from './processDataFrame';
 
 describe('FieldCache', () => {
   it('when creating a new FieldCache from fields should be able to query cache', () => {
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/MutableDataFrame.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/MutableDataFrame.ts
index ff9971a2206..9ff9aa0f3ae 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/MutableDataFrame.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/MutableDataFrame.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { Field, DataFrame, DataFrameDTO, FieldDTO, FieldType } from '../types/dataFrame';
 import { KeyValue, QueryResultMeta, Labels } from '../types/data';
-import { guessFieldTypeFromValue, guessFieldTypeForField, toDataFrameDTO } from '../utils/processDataFrame';
+import { guessFieldTypeFromValue, guessFieldTypeForField, toDataFrameDTO } from './processDataFrame';
 import isArray from 'lodash/isArray';
 import isString from 'lodash/isString';
 import { makeFieldParser } from '../utils/fieldParser';
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/index.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/index.ts
index 56d98921612..e2cfc615ce4 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/index.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/index.ts
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ export * from './DataFrameView';
 export * from './FieldCache';
 export * from './CircularDataFrame';
 export * from './MutableDataFrame';
+export * from './processDataFrame';
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/processDataFrame.test.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/processDataFrame.test.ts
similarity index 98%
rename from packages/grafana-data/src/utils/processDataFrame.test.ts
rename to packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/processDataFrame.test.ts
index 978f1d6ada1..975232e3902 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/processDataFrame.test.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/processDataFrame.test.ts
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ import {
   sortDataFrame,
 } from './processDataFrame';
 import { FieldType, TimeSeries, TableData, DataFrameDTO } from '../types/index';
-import { dateTime } from './moment_wrapper';
-import { MutableDataFrame } from '../dataframe/MutableDataFrame';
+import { dateTime } from '../utils/moment_wrapper';
+import { MutableDataFrame } from './MutableDataFrame';
 
 describe('toDataFrame', () => {
   it('converts timeseries to series', () => {
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/processDataFrame.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/processDataFrame.ts
similarity index 98%
rename from packages/grafana-data/src/utils/processDataFrame.ts
rename to packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/processDataFrame.ts
index 3dfeb59103e..110799ce2ed 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/processDataFrame.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/processDataFrame.ts
@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ import {
   FieldDTO,
   DataFrameDTO,
 } from '../types/index';
-import { isDateTime } from './moment_wrapper';
-import { deprecationWarning } from './deprecationWarning';
+import { isDateTime } from '../utils/moment_wrapper';
+import { deprecationWarning } from '../utils/deprecationWarning';
 import { ArrayVector } from '../vector/ArrayVector';
-import { MutableDataFrame } from '../dataframe/MutableDataFrame';
+import { MutableDataFrame } from './MutableDataFrame';
 import { SortedVector } from '../vector/SortedVector';
 
 function convertTableToDataFrame(table: TableData): DataFrame {
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/matchers/fieldTypeMatcher.test.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/matchers/fieldTypeMatcher.test.ts
index 1d539585bc3..4c66af8dec8 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/matchers/fieldTypeMatcher.test.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/matchers/fieldTypeMatcher.test.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { FieldType } from '../../types/dataFrame';
 import { fieldMatchers } from './matchers';
 import { FieldMatcherID } from './ids';
-import { toDataFrame } from '../../utils/processDataFrame';
+import { toDataFrame } from '../../dataframe/processDataFrame';
 
 export const simpleSeriesWithTypes = toDataFrame({
   fields: [
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/matchers/nameMatcher.test.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/matchers/nameMatcher.test.ts
index 9bf238dadef..273c0d915d1 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/matchers/nameMatcher.test.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/matchers/nameMatcher.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { getFieldMatcher } from './matchers';
 import { FieldMatcherID } from './ids';
-import { toDataFrame } from '../../utils/processDataFrame';
+import { toDataFrame } from '../../dataframe/processDataFrame';
 
 describe('Field Name Matcher', () => {
   it('Match all with wildcard regex', () => {
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/append.test.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/append.test.ts
index 53cbff29782..8e7d5dc1b7d 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/append.test.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/append.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { DataTransformerID } from './ids';
-import { toDataFrame } from '../../utils/processDataFrame';
+import { toDataFrame } from '../../dataframe/processDataFrame';
 import { transformDataFrame } from '../transformDataFrame';
 import { transformersRegistry } from '../transformersRegistry';
 
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/filter.test.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/filter.test.ts
index 300a1d63b08..984a4fbd005 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/filter.test.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/filter.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { FieldType } from '../../types/dataFrame';
 import { DataTransformerID } from './ids';
-import { toDataFrame } from '../../utils/processDataFrame';
+import { toDataFrame } from '../../dataframe/processDataFrame';
 import { transformDataFrame } from '../transformDataFrame';
 import { FieldMatcherID } from '../matchers/ids';
 
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/filterByName.test.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/filterByName.test.ts
index c08178c4e46..3b601c46954 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/filterByName.test.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/filterByName.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-import { toDataFrame } from '../../utils/index';
-import { FieldType } from '../../index';
+import { FieldType, toDataFrame } from '../../index';
 import { DataTransformerID } from './ids';
 import { transformDataFrame } from '../transformDataFrame';
 
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/reduce.test.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/reduce.test.ts
index a8d06ffd244..5aff74e1e2b 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/reduce.test.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/reduce.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { ReducerID } from '../../utils/fieldReducer';
 import { DataTransformerID } from './ids';
-import { toDataFrame, toDataFrameDTO } from '../../utils/processDataFrame';
+import { toDataFrame, toDataFrameDTO } from '../../dataframe/processDataFrame';
 import { transformDataFrame } from '../transformDataFrame';
 
 const seriesWithValues = toDataFrame({
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/reduce.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/reduce.ts
index 507db09d9ae..de7f2a077a5 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/reduce.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/reduce.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { alwaysFieldMatcher } from '../matchers/predicates';
 import { DataFrame, Field, FieldType } from '../../types/dataFrame';
 import { ArrayVector } from '../../vector/ArrayVector';
 import { KeyValue } from '../../types/data';
-import { guessFieldTypeForField } from '../../utils/processDataFrame';
+import { guessFieldTypeForField } from '../../dataframe/processDataFrame';
 import { getFieldMatcher } from '../matchers/matchers';
 
 export interface ReduceTransformerOptions {
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformersRegistry.test.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformersRegistry.test.ts
index 814790f1094..fb5980e9558 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformersRegistry.test.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformersRegistry.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { DataTransformerID } from './transformers/ids';
 import { transformersRegistry } from './transformersRegistry';
-import { toDataFrame } from '../utils/processDataFrame';
+import { toDataFrame } from '../dataframe/processDataFrame';
 import { ReducerID } from '../utils/fieldReducer';
 import { DataFrameView } from '../dataframe/DataFrameView';
 
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/csv.test.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/csv.test.ts
index 23adebcf467..c7ed640bfa9 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/csv.test.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/csv.test.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 import { readCSV, toCSV, CSVHeaderStyle } from './csv';
-import { getDataFrameRow } from './processDataFrame';
+import { getDataFrameRow } from '../dataframe/processDataFrame';
 
 // Test with local CSV files
 import fs from 'fs';
-import { toDataFrameDTO } from './processDataFrame';
+import { toDataFrameDTO } from '../dataframe/processDataFrame';
 
 describe('read csv', () => {
   it('should get X and y', () => {
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/csv.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/csv.ts
index 6cbbb5737b0..3d787163101 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/csv.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/csv.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import isNumber from 'lodash/isNumber';
 
 // Types
 import { DataFrame, Field, FieldType, FieldConfig } from '../types';
-import { guessFieldTypeFromValue } from './processDataFrame';
+import { guessFieldTypeFromValue } from '../dataframe/processDataFrame';
 import { MutableDataFrame } from '../dataframe/MutableDataFrame';
 
 export enum CSVHeaderStyle {
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/dataFrameView.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/dataFrameView.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2d..00000000000
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/fieldParser.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/fieldParser.ts
index 6df6aa9d7ee..939f4e401f2 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/fieldParser.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/fieldParser.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { Field, FieldType } from '../types/dataFrame';
-import { guessFieldTypeFromValue } from './processDataFrame';
+import { guessFieldTypeFromValue } from '../dataframe/processDataFrame';
 
 export function makeFieldParser(value: any, field: Field): (value: string) => any {
   if (!field.type) {
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/fieldReducer.test.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/fieldReducer.test.ts
index 916fd5bc31c..0dfc1d349a1 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/fieldReducer.test.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/fieldReducer.test.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import difference from 'lodash/difference';
 import { fieldReducers, ReducerID, reduceField } from './fieldReducer';
 
 import { Field, FieldType } from '../types/index';
-import { guessFieldTypeFromValue } from './processDataFrame';
+import { guessFieldTypeFromValue } from '../dataframe/processDataFrame';
 import { MutableDataFrame } from '../dataframe/MutableDataFrame';
 import { ArrayVector } from '../vector/ArrayVector';
 
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/index.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/index.ts
index fb011851ba2..a61f4ccafeb 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/index.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/utils/index.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 export * from './string';
 export * from './registry';
 export * from './markdown';
-export * from './processDataFrame';
 export * from './deprecationWarning';
 export * from './csv';
 export * from './fieldReducer';