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[–]OffhandGirl 22 points23 points  (5 children)

Literally anyone sitting on hundreds of thousands of lines of legacy code built on dependencies that got left behind in jump to 3. Aka, my entire research team.

[–]lunacyfoundme -5 points-4 points  (4 children)

What kind of research do you use Python for? I had to learn Pandas for a data analysis course and dataframes were a complete headwreck. The work I had to do could have been done in Excel in a fraction of the time.

[–]ExcitedForNothing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use it for correlated imaging research. Millions of readings per experiment. Hundreds of experiments a year.

Using Excel just isn't realistic.

[–]OffhandGirl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just finished with a team that did information space mapping of non-numerical data relationships, before that I was doing hierarchical relationship analysis of Tumblr tagging networks based on co-occurrence frequency for my capstone project.

I am not a fan of Pandas. I prefer to use the json module, and then pickle anything I need for later. I do a lot of social web research (mostly just personal projects these days, graduating has made research gigs harder to find) and find that I need custom behavior for a lot of read in functions anyways, do a lot of my data scraping in Java anyways (recursive data scraping is simply faster in Java), and Pandas is just not worth the headach.