R and pandas and what I've learned about each

Re:R and pandas and what I've learned about each by dlib on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @05:55AM (#5323875)

I like Pandas and I'd like to move to Python for my data analysis. Python is a beautiful language I can use for many other purposes than just data analysis. I find it more readable and self-documenting than R.

Nonetheless I use R, ggplot2 is excellent and its graphs are better looking than matplotlib. I really like R Markdown for intermingling R and Markdown in your code. I suppose Ipython is the python equivalent. R especially shines with its numerous libraries.

Anyway, for every project I debate whether to use R or Python, perhaps I should look into rmagic/rpy2 for iPython as a go between.

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Re:R and pandas and what I've learned about each by dagw on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @06:39AM (#5323959)

Take a look at https://github.com/ContinuumIO/Bokeh It's a project to create a ggplot equivalent for python. It's still quite beta and not feature complete, but it's under active development by a company working in the python data analysis field and definitely worth a look.

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Re:R and pandas and what I've learned about each by hernamesbarbara on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @07:21AM (#5324062)

Very cool. I'd love to see ggplot grammar come to Python, so i'm excited to check this out.

I found this link on porting ggplot2 styles into python, but it doesn't focus on grammar. http://tonysyu.github.com/mpltools/auto_examples/style/plot_...

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