In December 2019 my InfoWorld colleague Sharon Machlis wrote an article called “How to merge data in R using R merge, dplyr, or data.table.” Sharon is a whiz at R programming, and analytics in general ...

When it comes to working with data in a tabular form, most people reach for a spreadsheet. That’s not a bad choice: Microsoft Excel and similar programs are familiar and loaded with functionality for ...

With the PyArrow library installed, pandas 3.0 interprets string columns automatically as the str data type instead of NumPy- ...

This story contains interviews with Facebook engineering manager Burc Arpat, AppNexus ad-quality engineering director Dave Himrod, and Pandas creator Wes McKinney and Pandas developer Jeff Reback. But ...