from what i can tell, the success of pandas as an ...

# datascience

[jimn]

from what i can tell, the success of pandas as an expression medium to supercede R, which supercedes spreadsheets as prefered manipulation tools has everything to do with being the gateway drug to native wrappers using operator syntax. code that's suitable for 300 megs of data now routinely winds up dealing with in-memroy datasets in the hundreds of gigs