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Re:Jupyter Notebook 5.0 by WeDontNeedH1Bs on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @02:32PM (#14035828)
Myself and all the Data Scientists I know use Python, while the Data Analysts in my company use R. Does R have anything like the Natural Language Tool Kit that Python has? Or SpaCy for fast NLP? Also, between PYKE, ProbLOG, and python-constraint, a lot of my logic programming needs are satisfied in Python. Does R have anything like that for logic programming?
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Re:Jupyter Notebook 5.0 by minimaxir on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @02:35PM (#14035870)
Not as effectively. Which is why I use R for tabular data and Python for text/image/nontabular data.

And there's nothing wrong with knowing and using both languages.

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Re:Jupyter Notebook 5.0 by WeDontNeedH1Bs on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @03:48PM (#14036511)
I think that makes sense and is why our Data Analysts use R.
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