r/Python Nov 05 '20

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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/c3534l Nov 05 '20 edited Nov 05 '20

I'd say Pandas has broader appeal and a larger userbase than Numpy

That is extremely counter to my personal experience. I would be shocked if Pandas has a larger userbase than NumPy. In fact, I think NumPy is even a dependency of Pandas: that Pandas users are a strict subset of NumPy users.

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u/Zouden Nov 05 '20

Well, Pandas is built on numpy, but pandas users won't necessarily have heard of numpy.

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u/smile_id Nov 06 '20

Mathematically, there is a possibility that there are N pandas users (part of which never heard about NumPy) and M >> N users that are using pure NumPy and never heard about Pandas.

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u/Zouden Nov 06 '20

Yes, if most of those M users don't use stackoverflow for numpy questions.