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Aaron Jacobs
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Aaron Jacobs writes Unconstant Conjunction, a personal blog at unconj.ca about programming and data. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
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Most of these tidyverse vs. data.table arguments end up sounding a bit irrelevant to me. They tend to focus on syntax, which is largely down to preference, or performance, which is really only important once in a while. And they seem oddly focused on the need to choose one or the other, when it seems obvious that all are good choices with various tradeoffs. I tried my hand at saying something more original about thi…
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