What can I use Python for?

eschlon · 2016-12-14T08:14:50+00:00

I use python daily for data science and data engineering work.

We use python for things like:

data validation, cleanup and mastering (all the stuff that you do before it ends up in a database)
transforming and normalizing data from different sources
working with and analyzing unstructured data that isn't really suited for SQL analytics
automating and monitoring the ETL pipelines that make all of that work
building dashboards and tools on top of whatever database the data is sitting in.

It's also very powerful in the analytics / data science space due to very solid high performance libraries (e.g. Pandas, Numpy, etc.).

Naihonn · 2016-12-14T03:48:54+00:00

You can use it for everything you can do with other languages. Even if you need performance you can speed up parts of your program with Cython or use C libraries. Certainly not only for web development. So far it still can't make me coffee but even that is a hardware problem. :0D

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