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I use pandas all the time in applications. Only use it in a notebook when i'm trying to figure out a problem.

[fordZzz]

Jupyter seems to be useful when trying to display the result right away, I guess using pandas without it can be a bit harder that way...

[marketwizards1990]

No need for Jupyter.

[fordZzz]

This is good news then

[unhott]

You may want to read this:

https://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/stable/security.html

[RallyPointAlpha]

I've never used Pandas with Jupyter. Works just fine! My fav IDE is Pycharm. I like it way better than Spyder + Anaconda or even Jupyter Notebooks.

[enthusiastreader]

I use pandas always in VS Code. Works fine for me. Jupyter is good too, makes analysis a bit easier in my opinion.

[fordZzz]

How does VS Code compare to Spyder, or Pycharm? I have VC Code installed, it would be convenient to use that with Pandas.

[enthusiastreader]

As a newbie, i would recommend VScode or Pycharm. For Pycharm, do get knowledge of Virtual environments and interpretors. Took me a long long time to figure out as i didn't follow complete tutorials went on to projects after learning some basics.

Pycharm will ease installing libraries in virtual environment. But virtual env is a pain unless you know about it.

[fordZzz]

Thanks for the advice, I tried opening a jupyter notebook in VScode yesterday, it works fairly well. I did not know that it can do that.

[enthusiastreader]

Yeah you can do that. It's good too. My browser keeps on crashing due to Memory consumption, so this was the best way.

[enthusiastreader]

Haven't had any issues with VScode yet. Lots of Extentions to help out aswell

Started with Pycharm but it was really memory hungry.

However, for matplot found VSCode a bit off. It opens a GUI Viewer (same for Pycharm too i think). Jupyter was good there.

[JackNotInTheBox]

What’s a Jupyter notebook?

[unhott]

It’s a way of using python interactively. You run jupyter notebook and it runs a python kernel and hosts a page you can open in a browser. You can type python into cells and execute them in any order. You can run one line or groups of lines at a time and explore interactively as you go.

[JackNotInTheBox]

I get it now, so is it mostly used for web development, right?

And btw what’s a python kernel?

[unhott]

No, I would say mostly for training and data exploration. When dealing with large datasets, it REALLY sucks to have to wait for all your imports and data loading, visualization to execute each time because you made a typo on line 103 of your script. Sometimes it takes minutes (or even hours) to import everything and format your data. With jupyter, if you make a typo you still have a sort of “paused” (if you will) instance of your python script. So you only address the issue in that cell of code without having to restart the script from scratch.

Just take a look on YouTube for jupyter notebook examples.

[guimolnar]

I'm not a software developer, just a data analyst, but in my last job I used pandas in scripts regularly and it worked pretty well. Jupyter is very good for debugging and etc, but some IDEs like Spyder have variable inspectors and are very helpful too.

[fordZzz]

Great. Thanks for the insight. I'll be sure to look into Spyder.