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An introduction to Pandas. A quick start guide to familiarize SAS users with Python and Python's various scientific computing tools.

For me, the first reason to learn Python was that it is, in fact, a beautiful programming language. It was really natural to code in it and express my thoughts. Another reason was that we can use… (more…)

I’ve found myself explaining Python 3’s str to people online more and more often lately. There’s this ridiculous claim about that Python 3’s string handling is broken or somehow worse than Python 2, and today I intend to put that myth to rest. Pyt...

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