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Maybe not the best place to ask, but how to people organise their Pandas research? Are there any useful methods?
by jpcooper 5y ago
Maybe not the best place to ask, but how to people organise their Pandas research? Are there any useful methods?
- closed 5y agoIs there a specific aspect of pandas research you're interested in? There are a lot of useful guides around table-based workflows that might be helpful :). I would start w/ different strategies on how to model data in tables. One problem that I often see in pandas data analyses is people treating the data like it's a web app database (many small, normalized tables), rather than joining the data into a few big, denormalized tables. The latter makes it easier for people to answer their own questions / vs relying on a bunch of tiny custom functions someone wrote! * Hadley's tidy data paper: https://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.pdf https://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.pdf * Normalizing data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization * Denormalized data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denormalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denormalization * Emily Riederer, column names as contracts: https://emilyriederer.netlify.app/post/column-name-contracts/ https://emilyriederer.netlify.app/post/column-name-contracts...