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In fact, let’s just use Excel for everything. Throw away all other software, you don’t need any of that.
by codetrotter 3y ago
In fact, let’s just use Excel for everything.
Throw away all other software, you don’t need any of that.
- bombcar 3y agoExcel is the command line of the data manipulation world.
- anthk 3y agoExcept when Excel mangles your genomics. Or dates. Excel is the worst thing ever happened to data scientists. If sciencist knew awk/perl + gnuplot and basic C, most of the errors would't happened. From HN: Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070385
- nequo 3y agoR is pretty good to boot, and has been around since the 1990s too. I would’ve said that Excel is the assembly of data manipulation and dplyr is the command line. The higher level of abstraction and the guardrails help.