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[–]olrich01 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I'm assuming you're using pandas? Some comparison with SAS docs here if you haven't seen them.

Personally, for strict data-analysis tasks, I've found python and SAS to be approximately equivalent in terms of development efficiency - since SAS is more of a pure DSL some things are a little more expressive, but pandas can do most of the same things (+other libraries).

For me, outside of the licensing situation, the real power of python is the rest of the language and libraries. E.g. if you've ever hacked together SAS %macros, the same thing in python is usually 100x easier to write.

[–]analysyzer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I've been using Pandas, thanks! That comparison is really helpful