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The arguments are good, assuming you're the only person working on the analysis. As a consultant I'm always constrained to use the greatest common denominator
by vtail 16y ago
The arguments are good, assuming you're the only person working on the analysis.
As a consultant I'm always constrained to use the greatest common denominator - that is, something that my clients can use, modify and extend themselves after I leave. In 99.9% of the cases, that means Excel, regardless of the task.
- secretasiandan 16y agoWhile your clients need to look at the output of the analysis or the end result, they don't need to see every branch of it that you have explored. I will do serious exploratory analysis in R and then show my conclusions and maybe a few alternatives in Excel, but that doesn't mean you have to always work in Excel. Further, I could not be anywhere near as productive in Excel as I could in R.