overall it’s still better than R, where many times...
# datasciencee
ebonet
11/28/2017, 4:54 PMoverall it’s still better than R, where many times the documentation is a PDF
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chi
11/28/2017, 5:42 PMAside from the fact that it's commonly used by devs for DS in production (and arguably speed), I'm curious, how is it better than R, other than those, why might one want to use Python for DS?
I also don't think documentation as PDF is really an issue
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ebonet
11/28/2017, 5:47 PMNot worse, nor better, just different cases and applications. R has a strong academic community, lot’s of papers have implementations in R packages by the authors. Python integrate better with other tools, and has a larger scope of applications. You wouldn’t build a server in R for instance.
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chi
11/28/2017, 5:51 PMOkay. Cool.
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holgerbrandl
11/29/2017, 8:53 AM@ebonet actually building data-driven webfrontends is more streamlined compared to any other lang AFAIK. See https://shiny.rstudio.com/. They won’t scale to complex up like Spring, but still fit many needs.
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