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Re:Bamboolib – A GUI for Pandas by massaman_yams on Monday August 05, 2019 @02:11PM (#20616624)
Yep. Some similarity to TFDV too, but the UI here looks to be more or less lifted directly from Trifacta/Cloud Dataprep.

pro: - Trifacta can be slow, and part of that might be the way it stores the data (I'm assuming js data structures); if so Pandas/Bamboolib could improve that.

con: - Trifacta/Cloud Dataprep is directly integrated with Cloud Dataflow and can handle jobs that would crash Pandas.

Re:Bamboolib – A GUI for Pandas by kite_and_code on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @09:47AM (#20625102)
Thank you for pointing out TFDV (Tensorflow Data Validation) - I had not seen it so far.

And yes, as I say in the video, we used the Trifacta Wrangler Free Version to illustrate the vision of what we aspire to build. In the end, it will look different of course and we have some ideas on where we would imagine a completely different user interface. If this will be better or worse remains to be seen..

And thank you for the comparison of Trifacta and pandas. And I agree, that pandas won't be able to handle any dataset size. However, I wonder if the data set size can be increased if we also work in the cloud on machines with a larger RAM. Or, maybe even export Dask code instead of pandas code.

So, you seem to have experience working with Trifacta Wrangler. Is there something that you don't love about their solution?

Re:Bamboolib – A GUI for Pandas by massaman_yams on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @02:04PM (#20627785)
It's slow, first and foremost; while I'm not 100% sure on the internals, I think that's because it's doing these operations on js data structures in browser, so pandas would be up to a few orders of magnitude faster out of the box.
Re:Bamboolib – A GUI for Pandas by kite_and_code on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @03:23AM (#20632623)
Good to know, thank you for this!