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To be honest I don't find Python to be very useful for data cleansing. Full disclosure I use R quite a bit and use Python sparingly. If you want to use R for

To be honest I don't find Python to be very useful for data cleansing. Full disclosure I use R quite a bit and use Python sparingly. If you want to use R for data analysis I suggest the R package Tidyverse or use a product like OpenRefine. If you just need to run summary statistics with an application then using Python is just fine.

objektif 7y ago
What part of it you dont like? I use Python for data manipulation on a daily basis and I find it very useful.
- psv1 7y ago
  The pandas syntax is far less intuitive than R dataframes, especially if you're also using dplyr.
  - larrydag 7y ago
    Agree. Pandas seems to be a mixture of Python indexing syntax and R dataframes.
collyw 7y ago
Perl is way better at that sort of task.