On Thursday, 6 August 2015 at 02:38:15 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
On Wednesday, 5 August 2015 at 23:37:37 UTC, Laeeth Isharc
wrote:
Dataframes aren't intellectually very exciting, but they are
very useful for iterative data exploration and quick
prototyping since all of that starts with getting the data in
from somewhere in a standard format.
May not be intellectually exciting, but look at how popular
pandas is for python.
Yes - exactly my point. I figured I needed to acknowledged this
however, since smart people often work on what's stimulating
rather than what's most useful given the choice. Having
dataframes will open up more possibilities. Via PyD and some
extra glue, it shouldn't be hard to make D dataframes easily
convertible to pandas dataframes and back. Thats perfect for the
Ipython notebook because you then don't need to convert all your
code at once, and you still have access to Python notebooks.
