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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 ...

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 ...

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NumPy (Numerical Python) is an open-source library for the Python programming language. It is used for scientific computing and working with arrays. Apart from its multidimensional array object, it ...

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Microsoft reckons machine-generated code should be treated with a "mixture of optimism and caution" because programming can be automated with large language models, but the code also can't always be ...