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@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com
2025-12-26 00:03:59
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I guess it depends on the language. I use polars heavily with Python. It works really really well. It's not just faster than pandas, it's more ergonomic, more regular, more composable and less quirky.

Python is very flexible and accommodating. And you are strongly discouraged from doing fine grained computation in Python a…
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com
2026-02-19 04:28:44

@… I’m working with a codebase that stores dicts of arbitrary data in pandas dataframes.
Not sure that’s an upgrade…

@carlos@perceptiveconstructs.com
2026-01-07 02:01:50
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Data Science is different things to different people so the list of things you need to know is hard to pin down.
It's often understood to go beyond data analysis.

In addition to Python programming and statistics you need to know at least:
- data manipulation tools including SQL, dataframes (polars, pandas)
- fund…
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com
2026-01-07 02:01:50
@…

Data Science is different things to different people so the list of things you need to know is hard to pin down.
It's often understood to go beyond data analysis.

In addition to Python programming and statistics you need to know at least:
- data manipulation tools including SQL, dataframes (polars, pandas)
- fund…