I also found myself reading the manual all the time.
I have a toy project I use for learning different tools. Given a CSV containing every MLB game ever played, calculate the win percentage for each team during its first season.
Pandas makes that kind of simple thing painfully unintuitive. Tools like Polars and dplyr and even SQL require code that's far closer to how people think.
I have a toy project I use for learning different tools. Given a CSV containing every MLB game ever played, calculate the win percentage for each team during its first season.
Pandas makes that kind of simple thing painfully unintuitive. Tools like Polars and dplyr and even SQL require code that's far closer to how people think.