I think of the reasons spreadsheet software is more approcahable than R/Python for a lot of folks is that you can directly see & manipulate the data structure. Learning how to conceptualize data structures is a specialized skill that takes time to learn.
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Replying to @rctatman
I'm wondering do you regex-replace in a text editor as well? Quite often I find myself doing even pretty complicated regular expressions on hundreds of lines in Sublime/vim.
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Replying to @GeorgeGach @rctatman
There is something about rich and interactive visual feedback that's much more compeling than typing clear commands and look at print. I imagine as we develop better human-computer interfaces actual coding will rapidly decline in favor of virtual interfaces and gesture inputs mby
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How do you automate or replicate the complex stuff you do?
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"Hackathon" is such a strange concept as people use it to mean stuff that doesn't involve writing code these days? Nevertheless, yes, I try to make my research accountable and value for tax payers money as well as good quality in other ways and so on.
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Replying to @GeorgeGach @rctatman
Just because you haven't been taught the very recent history of a word doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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You used a word I'm familiar with in a non-standard way. That's something I feel the need to point out — you related "hackathon" with not coding. That's fine but it's a strange new trend I want to comment on. I've been around a while and I know how we used to use "hackathon".
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Hackathon is actually something that computer science students (ex student in my case of course) naturally tend to do every time we have an assignment due the next day. It's something in my blood that's a "bad habit" but also some of the coolest memories.
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