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I would agree that pyxley never came close to the functionality of Shiny, but my goal was a little different. My goal was to make a set of reusable components that were also really…

I think the quote and definition from the blog is a good one: “better engineers than statisticians and better statisticians than engineers”. Perhaps that 1997 quote was influential…

What you are describing is a statistician and that's perfectly fine, but lumping them in with data scientists devalues the role for those of us doing more.

I completely disagree, data scientists who can not create the data they need are at a significant disadvantage to those who can. Our job is more than being able to analyze and inte…

Yup, that one. I planned on simply filtering a pandas dataframe using the request.args that are passed in. The javascript components can be used directly, but I wrote the python wr…

The flask dependency is pretty strong because I used the requests module for the api route functions. It should be possible to override it and use django instead, but I don't know …

It shouldn't be too bad. My goal was just to make it a little simpler to do the basic things like formatting the data as json for a particular charting library. The python helpers …