I see Excel is being hated on again. To be honest, its quick visual sorting, filtering and graphing functions are exceptional. Fantastic for initial exploration of the data. I use it daily.
Once I see the data, of course #rstats for serious graphs :)
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What people seem to do is ENTER the data in Excel. This is disturbing. Please do not do that.https://twitter.com/deevybee/status/1031151509965352960 …
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Excel is bad for so many reasons.
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yes indeed, it has many problems. I was just highlighting some of the things it does very well (IMHO)
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I hope for your own sake you can wean yourself off this. I don't use R, but if you do, you should just use R and RStudio to look at your data. It can do everything, as you know, that Excel can do and more.
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I use R daily and have written and published multiple R packages :-) Excel is still great at an initial "first look" in my opinion, but of course, opinions vary :-)
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I don't even have Excel on Linux — so are you developing on a Mac? Impressive, because that does my head in with its BS with Cython. Maybe deving in R is more Mac-friendly.
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this is going to blow your mind... my main computers are Windows....
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Universities and students often have Excel by default, so are used to using it. Showing them that Excel is bad at some things is vital, but most biologists *do* need Excel (or an open variant like LibreOffice, same difference).
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Excel is certainly over-used
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Sure, that much is true.
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