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Re:PyCon 2015: Are we still changing the world? by Lofkin on Monday May 11, 2015 @03:09PM (#9527140)
Interesting thanks for sharing. Hopefully bokeh might be able to address the visualization space with its upcoming statistical glyphs.

When you say "flexibility to use whatever I wanted to do my work", do you mean data munging and manipulation or statistical modeling packages?

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Re:PyCon 2015: Are we still changing the world? by baldfat on Monday May 11, 2015 @07:02PM (#9528426)
Programming I mean that I have 5 different ways of doing anything and everything. SO if I want to do loops (I never do and people shouldn't) I can. If I want to do strict funtional programming, no problem. If I want to use a SQL type syntax I can use data.table. This is frustrating at first since stackoverflow will have a bunch of solutions and it will be something new. I end up really using a few libraries and sticking with them. I use dplyr, stringr, httr, ggvis or ggplot2 and tidyr.

Graphics I can use just about anything. I can use plottly, ggplot2, D3.js, PDF report, HTML, send to a blogging site, interactive graphics with ggvisand Shiney, even PowerPoint slides.

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