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As another data point, I switched to Polars because I found it much more intuitive than Pandas - I coulnt remember how to do much in pandas in the rare (maybe t
by bbkane 3y ago
As another data point, I switched to Polars because I found it much more intuitive than Pandas - I coulnt remember how to do much in pandas in the rare (maybe twice a year) times I want to do data analysis. In contrast, Polars has a (to me anyway) wonderfully consistent API that reminds me a lot of SQL
- sanderjd 3y agoYep, been using pandas for years now, still have no real mental model for it and constantly have to experiment or chat with our AI overlords to figure out how to use it. But SQL and polars make sense to me.
- orhmeh09 3y agoI also use Pandas very infrequently (it has been years). Usually, for data analysis, I'm reaching for R + tidyverse/data.table/arrow. I have found Python and Pandas to be inelegant and verbose for these tasks. As of last week, I have a need to process tabular data in Python. I started working with polars on Friday, and I have an analysis running across 16 nodes today. I find it very intuitive.
- godelski 3y agoMaybe that's it, because I don't really use SQL much. Reaching for pandas about the same rate. Maybe that's the difference? But I come from a physics background and I don't know many physicists and mathematicians that are well versed in SQL. But I do know plenty that use pandas and python. So there's definitely a lot of people like me. Also I could be dumb. Totally willing to accept that lol.