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Re:Comprehensive Guide on Data Visualization with Pandas by luckydata on Monday September 16, 2019 @12:30PM (#20985771)
re: weird mixture of Numpy and pre-2010R

It does because it is.

Pandas was written by someone that was just starting out with Python at the time and was coming from programming in R.

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Re:Comprehensive Guide on Data Visualization with Pandas by EForEndeavour on Monday September 16, 2019 @02:20PM (#20987021)
Pandas was extensively rewritten since its first few versions, and its GitHub repo has 1500+ contributors now, so I doubt that Wes McKinney's initial lack of python experience had much to do with the API rough spots of modern pandas. "Pre-2010 R" doesn't mean much to me, but I can confidently point out that pandas "looks like a weird mixture of numpy" because it is based heavily on numpy.
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Re:Comprehensive Guide on Data Visualization with Pandas by disgruntledphd2 on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @10:03AM (#21060256)
It basically means pre-tidyverse R. pandas looks like a weird hybrid of Numpy and R. It's such a shame, as python has marvellous abstraction facilities, and yet they aren't used in pandas (__methods__ etc).
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