A Brief History of the Dataframe

Insightful read sourced from Towards Data Science on the history of the dataframe - From its origins in the S programming language, to R, to pandas for Python (to the tibble for R).

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Javier Orraca-Deatcu

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This is quite the insightful read on the history of the dataframe. From its origins in the S programming language, to R, to the pandas library for Python (to the tibble for R!)… I couldn’t imagine doing my work without this fundamental data structure, but will it really be defined out of existence? See below link for an excellent overview by Devin Petersohn:

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• Towards Data Science: Preventing the Death of the Dataframe

• pandas for Python

• tibble for R