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Re:It shouldn't take 64 lines of code to do something really... by lurker19 on Monday October 03, 2011 @07:31AM (#3065879)
"Messy dependencies across rows" is exactly how Python whitespace works. That data file exactly Pythonic indentation in the main content section.
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Re:It shouldn't take 64 lines of code to do something really... by john_horton on Monday October 03, 2011 @10:31AM (#3066408)
The reason indentation to imply structure doesn't make sense for datasets is that in data analysis you are constantly subsetting and sorting data at the row level---something you generally don't do to the lines of a compter program.
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