Re:Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of...
by currymj on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @08:53PM
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I would also add two good reasons to stick with R: RStudio and Hadley Wickham.
In theory, there are Python and Julia equivalents to RStudio (JupyterLab, Spyder, PyCharm, Juno, whatever) but RStudio is just so, so, so good. A truly great piece of software.
And of course if you have a data pipeline type workflow, and it fits into the Hadleyverse paradigm and isn't too performance intensive, there's nothing better.
Re:Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of...
by byt143 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @09:37AM
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Julia has it's own "*verse" type data pipeline framework, with an even greater variety of backends and plotting solutions than R.
It's still in development (mutate and select have PRs) but it's almost there.
I don't expect either R or Python to go away either time soon, nor would I want them to, but I would like to see people moving to things like Julia and Nim, which have the same level of expressivity, but are much more performant. I have difficulty imagining many people saying "I love programming in R and Python, but don't like Julia or Nim."
I like Python but at least with stats/numerics there isn't a big reason to move away from R except for specific libraries (especially DL stuff) or front-end integration with web-land (and even then things like Jupyter mitigate against that).