From ROOT doc

[tomeichlersmith]

During LDMX meeting discussions, I've been hearing a lot of comments of the form "I do X in ROOT, can I/how do I do that without ROOT?". Having an extra page in the documentation specifically geared towards answering questions of that sort would help point people in the right direction.

ROOT Abilities People Have Asked About

• TBrowser --> HDFView
• TTree::Draw --> numpy slicing in h5py and matplotlib
• Histogram serialization (i.e. storage of binned data) -> h5py, numpy.histogram, and fire.hist Histogram Helpers #9
• hadd -> h5py and fire.merge Merging fire Files #4
• uproot's interface to pandas and awkard array Python analysis package #27