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Wang: Graphical BI tools degenerate into useless complexity compared to code
“Point-and-click graphical tools are really very impoverished when it comes to expressing the full plethora of opportunities and possibilities. And what we, in fact, see is a lot of the graphical tools for, you know, advanced BI++ kinds of tools, they ultimatel…”
In 2012, Papaioannou predicted easy data tools for non-programmers by 2019
“And I think it's going to take us, like I said, five to seven years until we get to the point where you don't have to be a programmer who understands Python or R or, you know, pick your favorite, you know, language. So actually go and get that insight.”
A complete modern LLM takes only 200 to 300 lines of Python
“You have this code this code to build a complete large language model that can train on a large data set and learn to speak, runs on GPUs yes, eventually is trained with RL and tool calls. That entire set of code, probably two to 300 lines of Python code.”
Over 90% of Python tabular data passes through Pandas
“I'd say, you know, nine, more than 90% of the data that's coming into structured data processing in, in the Python ecosystem, tabular data processing is passing through pandas at some point at some point in its lifetime.”
Howard: FastHTML enables rich web applications in a single Python file
“So we created this thing called fast HTML, which brings all these ideas together. And lets you create arbitrarily rich, sophisticated web applications in a single Python file.”
Wang: Python is one of the few programming languages designed for teaching
“One of the things that's really interesting about Python as a language is that it is actually one of the very few languages in the world that has a history or a pedigree, a legacy of being developed with the intent of being taught.”
Stancil: Technical data skills are learnable, analytical thinking is harder to teach
“They're gonna need SQL skills, they're gonna, they might need Python or R skills, they'll need something like Excel but those things are learnable, whereas I think, like, the way of thinking is often harder to teach.”
Kandel: Hand-coding tools remain the most common data preparation method
“So probably still today the most common is using kind of hand coding tools so programming languages, Python, Spark SAS and so on.”
Kaiser: GPT-V Pro solves dot puzzles by running Python code loops
“The GPT-V Pro will run Python code to extract these dots from an image, and then it will count them in a loop.”
Sisense plans to integrate Python and R into a notebook interface
“Coming soon, we will also integrate the rest of the notebook like experience, being able to put Python and R within the experience and instantly get your insights.”
Shopify transitioned its ETL platform from Ruby to Python around 2013-2014
“Shopify, the application is still Ruby on Rails, and actually the first version of ETL tooling that was built in house was Ruby, but I think we made this decision of moving to Python around 20 13, 20 14, because we thought it's the language that most of the co…”
The name Jupyter pays homage to Julia, Python, and R
“In fact, the name Jupiter pays homage to these three languages, Julia, Python, and R.”
Instacart's data stack relies on Postgres, AWS Redshift, Python, and R
“All of our production data is in Postgres, and we will read from the secondaries in AWS. We push all of the Postgres data into Redshift and do a lot of more intensive batch computations off of Redshift. The data science teams are using either Python or R we do…”
AXA converts younger actuaries into internal data science roles
“What we found is that, quite frankly, we had some data scientists essentially within our midst, and so the actuaries that we had within our organizations, especially some of the younger ones, it was a very nice conversion for them to be able to pick up R codin…”
Rent the Runway's 2014 open source stack: MySQL, Mongo, Redis, and R
“Our entire transactional stuff is, is, is on MySQL. We use Mongo for a product catalog. We use Redis to serve recommendations. We use R to do the matrix factorization. Should I touch everything? I think I did. We use tons of Python scripts for parsing the revi…”
Hilary Mason: Bitly's real-time stack relies on C, Python, and Redis
“A lot of our stuff is homegrown, unfortunately. A lot of it's written in C. The rest is in Python. We use Redis quite a lot as a data store.”
Bernhardsson: Modal containerizes Python code to scale execution to thousands of GPUs
“Modal makes it easy to build, scale and deploy applications in the data, AI, machine learning realm. So, so we basically, you can think of as like, we take, you write a little bit of Python code, and we take that code, we stick it in a container, we execute th…”