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		FormerBandmate on Dec 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft is making Excel’s formulas easier Excel also makes it easier to experiment. Pandas requires you to change an entire column which can frequently be processor-intensive, take forever, and be hard to understand. With Excel, you can just take a random cell, try something out, and if it comes up with nonsense, undo it

twobitshifter on Dec 30, 2022 [–]

Why not df.head()… ?

FormerBandmate on Dec 30, 2022 | [–]

That can also take a while, and it isn’t as easy to view the values side by side. Excel is simpler (although way less capable) a lot of the time

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