python and pandas

R is undeniably a must-use language. Especially for data visualization. But R can sometimes be a little bit slow when dealing with big datasets. If you don't need to create awesome graphs or don't have time to wait, there's an alternative in Python that can be quite fast for data manipulation. The Python Data Analysis Library, pandas, provides an easy way to manipulate data in python. Recently, I had to deal with a big gene expression file (21024 genes x [...]