• asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

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

      • Hawk@lemmynsfw.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • isles@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Research projects almost exclusively have more than one person working on them.