Re:Apache Arrow and the “Things I Hate About Pandas”
by chasedehan on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:42AM
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> pandas is an amazing library, the best at exploratory work,
I will add ... "in python." That is definitely true, but to call it "the best at exploratory work" is not accurate. I might be opening up a completely separate debate, but for down and dirty exploratory work nothing beats R's dplyr and ggplot.
With that being said, I now do most of my work in python because of putting models into production. I also haven't had any issues with pandas in production; maybe because I'm not doing high throughput operations and our ML application is relatively lightweight.
I will add ... "in python." That is definitely true, but to call it "the best at exploratory work" is not accurate. I might be opening up a completely separate debate, but for down and dirty exploratory work nothing beats R's dplyr and ggplot.
With that being said, I now do most of my work in python because of putting models into production. I also haven't had any issues with pandas in production; maybe because I'm not doing high throughput operations and our ML application is relatively lightweight.