R-Ladies Baltimore (Bmore) hosted a meetup on Tuesday February 20, 2024 with a wonderful presentation from Emily Riederer, a Senior Analytics Manager at Capital One (emilyriederer.netlify.app/about). She gave a talk on "Python Rgonomics: Modern python tools that feel like R"!
For folks that cross languages from R to Python, come learn about newer tools in the Python space that mirror some of R's semantics and make users feel more at home, including:
- Setup like less painful installation (pyenv) and a great IDE (VSCode)
- Core computation: polars feels much more like dplyr than pandas
- The communication stack: seaborn's object interface explicitly inspired by ggplot2, Rich Iaonne's new gt python port
- Quarto notebooks
Think about it as opinionated data science stack that will feel more familiar to R users!
WHO is this for?
- If you are new to R, and want to come learn about some awesome Python packages and a great integrative developer environment (IDE)?
- If you are new to Python, and want to learn tools that feel like R?
- If you use RStudio, and want to learn about a new IDE?