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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Wow. You're kind of out of contol.
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