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

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Shoulda coulda. Not everyone is a programmer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They should be if they're doing data analysis like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If it works, it works. Programming is a tough thing to learn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Programming in R or Python isn't a lot harder than learning how to get Excel to do what you want. I'd wager it's easier since you don't have to fight your tools.

Excel has its place for simple quick calculations. But at some point it's simply the wrong tool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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