Pandas [was Kinds of containers]

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 21 October 2015 at 15:44:36 UTC, Russel Winder 
wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 09:11 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> 
> […]
>> My finance folks also rave about Pandas. I wish I could fork 
>> myself to look into it.
>
> Pandas is what makes Python a viable competitor to R. Most data 
> science people will use one or the other these days. Though 
> some (with budgets) will use Matlab or Mathematica.

Yeah, R has had the functionality of what Pandas provides for a 
while. Data frames and zoo/xts cover most of Pandas. I think 
there has made some effort to get some of the functionality of 
dplyr as well (blaze).