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		natalyarostova on June 13, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R Pandas has a lot of defensive copying. I love Pandas, but I think it demands a lot from the user. When I started using it I was new to traditional coding (i.e. knowing anything about datastructures), and have come from R. Over time as I've learned a real amount about legitimate data structures, I've become far far better with Pandas.

curiousgal on June 13, 2018 [–]

What data structures do you recommend learning about?

natalyarostova on June 16, 2018 | [–]

I literally did not understand the fundamentals when I started Python (e.g. Dictionaries, triples)

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