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		franklin_p_dyer on Dec 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Discovering copy-on-write in R In what cases have you found it worthwhile to use pandas?

isoprophlex on Dec 21, 2023 | [–]

Resampling, regularizing, binning and forward/backward filling time series data is an absolute pain in the ass using only SQL and/or vanilla python. It does its thing well, there.

(Note that in general, I'm the biggest pandas hater I know)

canjobear on Dec 21, 2023 | [–]

It can be nice for groupby-aggregate logic. And it feeds into plotnine.

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