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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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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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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Matlab is a dinosaur, but some of us are dinosaurs. Retraining myself, sacrificing productivity and time at a transition stage to ECR isn't something I'm going to do. So I'll do my best to be open science oriented with my Matlab. And help train the next gen to use R and python.
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Replying to @ColinHawco @prokraustinator and
That's fair but Matlab isn't
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More here (see question on Matlab) — Octave is an option but it doesn't support everything in Matlab: http://rescience.github.io/faq/
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