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It's kinda like a spreadsheet with a programmatic interface. Check out pandas for a nice introduction!
by macawfish 7y ago
It's kinda like a spreadsheet with a programmatic interface. Check out pandas for a nice introduction!
- CameronNemo 7y agoAm I the only one who finds pandas to be terrible compared to dplyr?
- yumyai 7y agoMaybe? I hate how dplyr handle the rowname/index in general. In pandas, I could put 1-2 columns that I wouldn't use for the calculation in the index/multindex while dplyr NEED to rely on mutate/summarise_if() or gather function, and hope for the best.
- bandage 7y agoNo, pity that a lot of new build libraries and platform gets inspired by pandas workflow in search for something better, instead of looking at R ecosystem where people actually enjoy the available tools and workflows.
- Icathian 7y agoEveryone does. On the other hand I, and many others I assume, aren't willing to move to R for the sake of the one superior tool over python. Two if you count ggplot2, I suppose.
- CameronNemo 7y agoYeah but for giving someone an intro to what dataframes are, I think pandas might leave a sour taste where dplyr would allow someone to learn comfortably. Although, one might run into a "true level" situation. This is when Morty feels what true level is like, then says "everything is crooked, reality is poison" when he has to live in the "fake level" world.
- k__ 7y agoI saw this used as some Python library inside another app, didn't quite understand it.