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Re:How Python became the language of choice for data science by lightoverhead on Friday November 22, 2013 @10:22AM (#6781175)
I consider myself a data scientist in bioinformatics field. I have to deal with several hundred GB scale data everyday. IMO, the best tool kit so far is the combination of Perl and R. Because these tools have the richest packages/modules, you can do almost everything with them. As for python, I don't think it can deal with the data I have as efficient as Perl.
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Re:How Python became the language of choice for data science by Demiurge on Friday November 22, 2013 @10:28AM (#6781233)
PDL or Perl?
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Re:How Python became the language of choice for data science by lightoverhead on Friday November 22, 2013 @10:31AM (#6781254)
PDL is the Perl packages for numerical science. Unless you did a lot of mathematics computation, PDL is rarely used in my daily routine.
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