Re:Comparison – R vs. Python: head to head data analysis
by vegabook on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @11:09AM
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Do you mean they use Python because it's faster? yes sure. But then, just use scala. 10x faster again. With a REPL.
Perhaps I should clarify, I'm talking mainly time series and/or data which is vectorizable. Python is better if you're scraping the web. If there's a lot of if else going on. Ie imperative programming.
R's native functional aspects (all the apply family) and multilevel vector/matrix hierarchical indexing is better built from the ground up for large wrangling of multivariate datasets, in my opinion.
Perhaps I should clarify, I'm talking mainly time series and/or data which is vectorizable. Python is better if you're scraping the web. If there's a lot of if else going on. Ie imperative programming.
R's native functional aspects (all the apply family) and multilevel vector/matrix hierarchical indexing is better built from the ground up for large wrangling of multivariate datasets, in my opinion.