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Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data(www.theverge.com)

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Wooshock@lemmy.world
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What the hell else is there? Good luck getting universities using OpenOffice

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asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
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Scientists should be using programming languages like R or Python. They are both extremely popular in this field, much more than Excel.

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Maalus@lemmy.world
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Shoulda coulda. Not everyone is a programmer.

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Hawk@lemmynsfw.com
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Except every scientist and analyst. Stats, data sci and ML is done in R and Python, be it astro, health data or genomics.

If someone has been taught stats in spreadsheet software, they have have been taught wrong, period.

Also, programming is a very strong term. we’re talking about stats in a scripting language, not software development in CPP.

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isles@lemmy.world
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Research projects almost exclusively have more than one person working on them.

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atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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They should be if they’re doing data analysis like this.

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