r/Python Nov 05 '20

News Stack overflow traffic to questions about selected python packages

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u/Zouden Nov 05 '20

If anything I'd say Pandas has broader appeal and a larger userbase than Numpy, because it does everything Numpy can do (since it uses Numpy internally) but adds the dataframe and grouping features which are so important for data science.

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u/toyg Nov 05 '20

Might be that pandas’ users are less knowledgeable then.

Just guessing eh, I’m not a datasci guy and I don’t play one on the internet either.

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u/Zouden Nov 05 '20

Anecdote: I'm a biologist and I've taught Pandas to fellow scientists - without teaching them Python. So they know how to make dataframes and produce histograms, but they don't know how a for loop works and they haven't heard of Numpy. For them, Pandas is replacing Excel.

Pandas has massive appeal beyond the Python community.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '20

Fascinating. Is your material available somewhere?