Honestly jank and bad ergonomics pervade the Python data science ecosystem. The pandas API is kind of bad (multi-indexes anyone?) matplotlib is way too low level, tensorflow is a shitshow. I think the R community got lucky with a greater focus on user experience, even if it comes at the cost of explicitness sometimes (lots of DSL's with a lot of 'magic').
Honestly, in my experience, R's DSLs are not a bad thing. When you are doing analytics day in and out you basically are speaking the DSL anyway, so what if you have to learn this slightly different language if it expresses what you want to accomplish clearly?
Re:R Markdown: The Definitive Guide
by StarlaAtNight on Friday February 05, 2021 @08:50AM
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it was pretty wild to hear Hadley Wickham invoke Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in his most recent rstudio::conf keynote - dude is super in tune with how humans use open source data analysis tools
Then I was baffled to discover that there wasn’t an equivalent for Python. Jupyter is great, but I really love the simplicity of my text files and I’m surprised that there isn’t a major implementation given how popular both markdown and Python are. I guess notebooks are just too appealing.