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minus-squareWooshock@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down10·1 year agoWhat the hell else is there? Good luck getting universities using OpenOffice
minus-squareasdfasdfasdf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down5·edit-21 year agoScientists should be using programming languages like R or Python. They are both extremely popular in this field, much more than Excel.
minus-squareMaalus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·1 year agoShoulda coulda. Not everyone is a programmer.
minus-squareHawk@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down5·1 year agoExcept every scientist and analyst. Stats, data sci and ML is done in R and Python, be it astro, health data or genomics. If someone has been taught stats in spreadsheet software, they have have been taught wrong, period. Also, programming is a very strong term. we’re talking about stats in a scripting language, not software development in CPP.
minus-squareisles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·1 year agoResearch projects almost exclusively have more than one person working on them.
minus-squareatzanteol@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoThey should be if they’re doing data analysis like this.
minus-squareMaalus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIf it works, it works. Programming is a tough thing to learn.
What the hell else is there? Good luck getting universities using OpenOffice
Scientists should be using programming languages like R or Python. They are both extremely popular in this field, much more than Excel.
Shoulda coulda. Not everyone is a programmer.
Except every scientist and analyst. Stats, data sci and ML is done in R and Python, be it astro, health data or genomics.
If someone has been taught stats in spreadsheet software, they have have been taught wrong, period.
Also, programming is a very strong term. we’re talking about stats in a scripting language, not software development in CPP.
Research projects almost exclusively have more than one person working on them.
They should be if they’re doing data analysis like this.
If it works, it works. Programming is a tough thing to learn.