Friend or Foe: Comparison of R & Python in Data Manipulation and Visualisation

R and Python are partially overlapping but different as a whole: community and language. Still, comparing them in their common fields such as data manipulation and visualisation, useRs and Pythonistas will deepen mutual understanding.

R and Python have differences as many as simiralities. Through their comparisons, we can understand both languages better and use them effectively. I will take a look at some examples from de facto standard packages such as tidyverse and pandas for data manipulation tasks, and ggplot2 and matplotlib (and seaborn) for data visualisation.

1. Differences between R and Python as Language
   • Procedural and object-oriented programming
   • Specific and general purpose
2. Data Manipulation
   • tidyverse
   • pandas
3. Data Visualisation
   • ggplot2
   • matplotlib & seaborn
4. Some Other Cases (depending on time and interest)
   • Machine learning
   • Deep learning
   • Big data (distributed data processing)
   • Natural language processing
5. Conclusion
   • To be bilingual

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