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Re:Julia vs. Python: Monte Carlo Simulations of Bitcoin Options by philsheard on Saturday March 22, 2014 @06:38PM (#7451196)
I've not personally used RStudio but the IPython Notebook is great for interactive code with inline visualisations. I believe there's also a Julia kernel for IPython too so you could have either there.

I'd recommend Python as it has a lot of feature parity with R these days (especially with the Pandas library for fast dataframe operations).

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Re:Julia vs. Python: Monte Carlo Simulations of Bitcoin Options by Myrmornis on Sunday March 23, 2014 @03:53AM (#7452527)
I'm a daily python user, and mostly ex-R user. Agree data-frames in pandas help. But python really doesn't have much feature parity with R when it comes to statistical data analysis.
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Re:Julia vs. Python: Monte Carlo Simulations of Bitcoin Options by aeroevan on Sunday March 23, 2014 @10:49AM (#7453523)
As another (mostly) ex-R user I have been trying to move to statsmodels, scikit-learn, etc. with pandas.

I still fire up R/RStudio with ggplot2 for more complicated plots though...

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