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At least Python will ease the testing of the various functions you code. Everything won't be hidden inside cell all over the pages
by daddykotex 12y ago
At least Python will ease the testing of the various functions you code.
Everything won't be hidden inside cell all over the pages
- acqq 12y agoApparently the errors found were "transcription errors" not "programming errors." Using Excel or not then is irrelevant. Excel (and any other spreadsheet) is a nice and convenient tool to get easy tabular inputs and some results fast. Spreadsheets were one of the first useful programs on PCs.
- jmount 12y agoWith spreadsheets a lot of steps needlessly require human transcription (cut/paste, typing and so on). So there is a casual relation.
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- acqq 12y agoSteps require "human transcription"? I think you've got a wrong term, and if you mistype the data you have on the paper when making a spreadsheet I don't see why you wouldn't when doing the same typing using your text editor.
- jmount 12y ago"Manual intervention" would have been better. The steps involved can be copying and pasting, selecting a range (very nasty if you miss and don't notice), and even typing data from another source. Compare that to something like R where you typically load the data (even from a URL) with command like "read.table()" and most operations are implicitly over the whole data frame (no copying of data from paper required).
- coldtea 12y agoSomebody has to type the data you loaded.