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What about that big kid no one talks about - SAS?
by Keyframe 8y ago
What about that big kid no one talks about - SAS?
- peatmoss 8y agoHonestly, my feeling is that proprietary systems preclude reproducibilty in principle. One can argue that, in practice, people rarely dig i to the guts of R or Python to validate routines. However, in SAS, that just isn’t possible. Open Source isn’t pixie dust, but at least it doesn’t a priori preclude digging down to the bottom of the stack. More pragmatically, I wouldn’t want work that I do to only be validatable by people who can afford SAS. I’d rather not impose other socio-demographic biases into knowledge work if I can help it.
- JanisL 8y agoProbably because a lot of people are in the situation I'm in where they can't use it on their projects because their clients don't want to have to buy licenses just to verify the results.
- Keyframe 8y agoOf course. I tend to use Python and I dabble with R - all for personal use. However, I've seen SAS in a lot of places. It's huge, yet barely anyone mentions it!