• Evotech@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Excel is excellent at data analysis… Python integrations and everything

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        1 year ago

        Because every scientist is also a programmer?
        Especially if they struggle to use Excel properly, no chance.

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          1 year ago

          I’d be embarrassed to call myself a scientist if I didn’t know how to at least script basic shit and effortlessly reproduce data analyses. The bar for entry into every single stage of academic science is too fucking low. 95% of this literature is irreproducible shit, in part because fuckwits don’t know how to code. Scientists don’t need to be software engineers, but yes, they need to be able to program. It wasn’t this way 20 years ago, but it most certainly is nowadays.

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      1 year ago

      Excel sucks open ass. At storing data, at displaying data, at analyzing data. Scientists, of all people, should understand how to use an RDBMS and a data processing framework like R.