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As a data scientist, I like to use the most accessible tool that can get the job done without pain. Can I do it in Google Sheets? Awesome! I'll do that. Can I d
by neural_thing 5y ago
As a data scientist, I like to use the most accessible tool that can get the job done without pain. Can I do it in Google Sheets? Awesome! I'll do that. Can I do that in SQL? That's great too! Will I have to use pandas on a cloud instance? OK, I'll do that. Do I absolutely have to use some complex pipeline? Then I will do that.
There are benefits to using tools that many people can understand.
- spicybright 5y agoRight tool for the right job. It's some of the simplest wisdom that's the hardest to follow :)
- ImaCake 5y agoSame approach I take in a research group in computational biology. Our datasets are often around the ~1-10 million rows range so those get processed in R or the command line. But often the summary analysis fits into a single page in excel. I personally make my notes in markdown, but when I share them with others I convert to word docs or html because it’s not fair to make others deal with my raw text when it is so simple to format it for them.