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I don't feel that Python is out of reach for most who are using Excel with vlookups. I do feel that most Pandas code is poorly written and thus not at all compe
by __mharrison__ 5y ago
I don't feel that Python is out of reach for most who are using Excel with vlookups. I do feel that most Pandas code is poorly written and thus not at all compelling to replace Excel.
(My background is that I teach Python and Data Science to large corps.)
- gervwyk 5y agoNot sure I agree, but interesting, so who is your target audience in large corps?
- __mharrison__ 5y agoAre you disagreeing with "excel is programming" or "most pandas code is bad"?
- abrazensunset 5y ago+1, the Pandas API is somewhere between mediocre and bad, and results in garbage code unless you use it in a carefully constrained way (which is admittedly true of many complete languages, much less libraries that organically evolved several tooling generations ago)