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by baldfat 3569 days ago
I LOVE Python and really am pleased with Pandas, but ...

I use R exclusively for data science. Really encourage you to just give it a try. The tools, packages, community and the industry support is just awesome.

I did my reports for the end of the year and people loved the reports but the office is so MS Office focused that they wanted them in Word and PowerPoint (UGH), R has great tools for that RMarkdown and ReportRs library convinced me to switch. Also index being 1 is super strong selling point from now on for doing data science. http://davidgohel.github.io/ReporteRs/

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Whatever the data problem, I have found R to much more likely have a solution than Python or anything else.