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		orthoxerox on Aug 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail Not really. DuckDB can operate on raw csv without ingesting them. This is as easy if not easier than setting up python and pandas.

infecto on Aug 13, 2024 [–]

Totally agree that it depends on the tools available but given a typical toolset (sql and python). I would lean towards python because some types of analysis are easier to express in code, especially when working on top of the multiple data sets.

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