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Kudos to all contributors. Learning R and using it was a lot of fun and really satisfying experience. Great option for someone like me, who has to do some basic
by bitcharmer 7y ago
Kudos to all contributors. Learning R and using it was a lot of fun and really satisfying experience. Great option for someone like me, who has to do some basic analysis of large data sets without rich statistical background.
- flashyfaffe2 7y agoDid you learn R for your own fun or just to upgrade your skill set and get a job?
- mirekrusin 7y ago...better set of options: 1. for fun 2. get a job or job done 3. all of above
- bitcharmer 7y agoIn my case it was Q vs R. For what I was trying to achieve and with my level of statistics background R was an obvious choice. The language/runtime AND RStudio are entirely free. Give it a try!
- ryndbfsrw 7y agokdb+ is the only tool I've come across that solidly managed to outperform data.table for data processing. I have huge respect for good Q programmers
- bitcharmer 7y agoLikewise. A good kdb dev is a very rare and intelligent beast, hats off. I'm just too stupid to be able to comprehend much of Kx's ideas and so R was just much more appealing to me.
- anonu 7y agoIn my experience even bad Q programmers can outperform. The language and underlying engine is pretty efficient...