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jcattle 15 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Pre-Release of Polars 2.0

R really is/was the superior traditional data science language. Python ecosystem is slowly catching up though.

ggplot vs matplotlib

dplyr vs pandas

And I loved that everything in RStudio was so easily inspectable. Have a huge dataframe? Just look at it right in your IDE.

vovavili 15 days ago [–]

Altair and Positron should be just as good for your Polars @ Python needs. With software like Marimo notebooks and VegaFusion, Polars/Python experience starts beating R by quite a substantial margin.

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