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:alt: Growth of major programming languages
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This is fueled largely by libraries like Numpy, Pandas, and Scikit-Learn that
are popular due to their combination of efficient algorithms and intuitive
interfaces.
This is fueled both by computational libraries like Numpy, Pandas, and
Scikit-Learn and by a wealth of libraries for visualization, interactive
notebooks, collaboration, and so forth.

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:alt: Stack overflow traffic to various packages
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Responsive feedback
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Parallel computing is frustrating when things go wrong, which they will.
All of our tools for gaining insight into our computation like system monitors,
debuggers, profilers, progress bars and more need to be re-invented to work on
many cores spread across many machines. The added distance between a user and
their computation can drastically affect how quickly they are able to identify
and resolve bugs or performance problems.
Because everything happens remotely interactive parallel computing can be
frustrating for users. They don't have a good sense how computations are
progressing, what might be going wrong, or what parts of their code they should
focus on for performance. The added distance between a user and their
computation can drastically affect how quickly they are able to identify and
resolve bugs and performance problems, which can drastically increase their
time to solution.

Dask helps keep users informed and happy with a suite of helpful diagnostic and
Dask keeps users informed and content with a suite of helpful diagnostic and
investigative tools including the following:

1. A :doc:`real-time and responsive dashboard <understanding-performance>`
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