Yes! It’s all great advice! :)
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Replying to @DanielaJPalombo @ProfData
If you haven't seen this, it's painfully depressing: "One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Microsoft Excel"http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/one-five-genetics-papers-contains-errors-thanks-microsoft-excel …
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Replying to @o_guest @DanielaJPalombo
germane to my previous tweet and subsequent thread, thanks.
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Replying to @ProfData @DanielaJPalombo
So yeah, please, wean yourself off Excel!
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Replying to @o_guest @DanielaJPalombo
Maybe these economists would find a way to make a mistake no matter the software to support their preferred policy, but for good measure:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22223190 …
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Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ Retweeted Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ
I actually found that previous article rereading my Matlab ideas to see if I still agree with them and how they apply to this issue.https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/842794088315404288?s=19 …
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Replying to @agricolabs @o_guest and
I can't believe I'm going to defend matlab but…it's not that bad. Some things on that list aren't true (there *are* namespaces) and some are caused by excess cleverness. Other languages are sometimes better, sometimes worse (R is chock full of weird surprises!) and the IDE's ok.
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Replying to @prokraustinator @agricolabs and
My thoughts are all on my blog so I don't want to go over them in this thread again. But main point is it's not
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I'm not sure I like the hard boundary you're drawing. I agree that it'd better if stuff were released in a universally run/readable format, but surely getting it released at all is most of the battle? Octave/Libre Office can handle most things and if not, m-files are just text.
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Good luck with that.
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