Five years ago I started a new role and I suddenly found myself, a staunch R fan, having to code in Python on a daily basis. Working with data, most of my Python work involved using pandas, the Python data frame library, and initially I found it quite hard and clunky to use, being used to the silky smooth API of R’s tidyverse. And you know what? It still feels hard and clunky, even now, 5 years later! But, what seems even harder, is explaining to “Python people” what they are missing out on. Fro...