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Why Pandas feels clunky when coming from R (2024)
Five years ago I started a new role and I suddenly found myself, a staunch R fan, having to code in Python on a daily basis. Working with data, most of my Python work involved using pandas, the …
Five years ago I started a new role and I suddenly found myself, a staunch R fan, having to code in Python on a daily basis. We don’t want data hidden away in the index (that is, pandas’ really advanced system for row and column names). And yes, partially, but my experience is that with larger, real-world code the problems with the pandas API, outlined in this post, remains.
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