Re: [wlug] Python Explosion Blamed On Pandas

I wrote:

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/14/python_explosion_blamed_on_pandas/>

I like this reader comment <https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/containing/3290036>: when you play with big quantities of data in science, the speed is usually limited by inefficient code, not by inherent properties of the language. When I crunch my 5 GB dataset, making a for loop a little faster won't make my code run in a reasonable time -- but moving to a sparse data representation or avoiding the loop altogether will. Python makes those things easy, that's why it is a game changer for science.