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Re:Ask HN: R or Python? I am a newbie by curiousgal on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @03:43AM (#12120404)
Listen to this guy, he's done wonders with both R and Python. Great blog dude!
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Re:Ask HN: R or Python? I am a newbie by minimaxir on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @11:11AM (#12122213)
Hah, thanks for the plug. :)

To elaborate a bit, I use R for dplyr/ggplot2, both irreleplaceable for tabular data manipulation and visualization. Python I used for getting data, working with nontabular data from APIs (e.g JSON), and using Python tricks like list comprehensions and zip.

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Re:Ask HN: R or Python? I am a newbie by boniface316 on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @01:41PM (#12123322)
Sorry mate. I didn't understand a thing you said :(.
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Re:Ask HN: R or Python? I am a newbie by JakeColtman on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @04:27AM (#12120547)
Thanks for the pointer to the blog, looks amazing. Bookmarked!
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