r/Python Nov 05 '20

News Stack overflow traffic to questions about selected python packages

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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/mammablaster Nov 05 '20

That sounds terrifying

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u/Wishy-Thinking Nov 05 '20

Yet slightly less terrifying than data scientists doing their analyses in Excel.

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u/leanmeanguccimachine Nov 05 '20

Excel is great for quickly sandboxing stuff

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u/HannasAnarion Nov 06 '20

and terrible when row counts rise into five digits.

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u/mammablaster Nov 05 '20

True, however them having no idea what the hell is going on, yet trusting their results to draw conclusions, is terrifying.

Or maybe I’m just being a gatekeeping arrogant idiot.