Re:How Python became the language of choice for data science
by ProblemFactory on Friday November 22, 2013 @05:31AM
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I have used MATLAB a little bit - it was indeed more concise for matrix math than Python + Numpy.
But pure matrix math is a small part of my analyses and workflow. Most of the code is in data preprocessing from SQL servers, CSV files, JSON files, and various cleanups. Once you have your data in an array, MATLAB can be great, but writing general-purpose code (or even a while loop) was horrible.
But pure matrix math is a small part of my analyses and workflow. Most of the code is in data preprocessing from SQL servers, CSV files, JSON files, and various cleanups. Once you have your data in an array, MATLAB can be great, but writing general-purpose code (or even a while loop) was horrible.