Mito
Data
dataframe spreadsheet interface
SHOW HN2021
How HN took it
4 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Idea: 4 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for making pandas easier to learn and use
From 3 comments
Congrats on the launch! Tool seems super useful –– I hate having to memorize/wade through all of Pandas docs/flags to get something done. Especially indexing and grouping...
samoshay on HNSuper cool, congrats to the team! I can't count how many times I've had to open the merging section of the pandas docs. Great library but I find a lot of it unintuitive and hard…
kmckiern on HNCongrats on the launch folks - I spend tons of time in spreadsheets and can think of a few use cases for this (handling more regular repetitive tasks and processes). Looks useful
mizbani on HN
Objections
Not open source despite BSD-looking PyPI package and headers
From 3 comments
This is very confusing. The PyPI page says it's supposed to be BSD licensed: https://pypi.org/project/mitosheet/#files You can get the source code for something from that page,…
ilyagr on HNRight, even the headers on all the source files claim BSD...
xemoka on HNPlease don't use span on links on your web page, my mouse cursor didn't change, and it was very strange. Maybe I'm too snobbish, but I don't trust a company with my data that…
xiphias2 on HN
Tracking via Segment sends dataframe metadata and user email without opt-out
From 2 comments
Congrats on the launch. The product looks useful. However, I installed the package locally, and I see that importing it causes a request to be sent to segment.io.
arkani on HNI was really interested in this as an easy way to help people get to grips with the intricacies of Pandas and working with dataframes, but after looking over the source code…
aodj on HN
Requests
Support for Jupyter Notebook and other environments beyond Jupyter Lab 2.0
From 1 comment
Currently, Mito only works in Juptyer Lab version 2.0. We don't work in either Jupyter Notebooks, Jupyter Lab 3.0, or Google Collab. However, we'd love to expand to those in the…
aarondia on HN
Open source release or BSD license
From 2 comments
I was really interested in this as an easy way to help people get to grips with the intricacies of Pandas and working with dataframes, but after looking over the source code…
aodj on HNThis is very confusing. The PyPI page says it's supposed to be BSD licensed: https://pypi.org/project/mitosheet/#files You can get the source code for something from that page,…
ilyagr on HN
Questions
Is it open source?
From 1 comment
Heyo! Looks super cool and useful. Are you open souce?
Saurinp on HN
Does it only work in Jupyter?
From 1 comment
Seems pretty cool. Does this only work in Jupyter?
paluter on HN
How is the code translation done?
From 1 comment
How did you make the translation part of it?
benleim on HN
Alternatives named
bamboolib
From 1 comment
If you like Mito, here are some other, similar tools that you might like: Open-Source: - dtale: Very similar to Mito. On top of mito, it provides basic data exploration and can…
kite_and_code on HN
dtale
From 1 comment
If you like Mito, here are some other, similar tools that you might like: Open-Source: - dtale: Very similar to Mito. On top of mito, it provides basic data exploration and can…
kite_and_code on HN
pandasgui
From 1 comment
If you like Mito, here are some other, similar tools that you might like: Open-Source: - dtale: Very similar to Mito. On top of mito, it provides basic data exploration and can…
kite_and_code on HN