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Except 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
by anthk 3y ago
Except 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.