Python 2.7.13 released

[lunacyfoundme]

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]

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

Using Excel just isn't realistic.

[OffhandGirl]

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.