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Re:You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI by bradknowles on Sunday April 15, 2018 @11:40PM (#16846512)
The problem is that those limitations prevent you from being able to do any real "data science".

The GUI comes with a whole host of built-in assumptions about the data and what it could tell you, and you're probably not smart enough to know what those are and how to correct for them.

You might as well just search for your keys at the base of a streetlight.

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Re:You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI by whatshisface on Monday April 16, 2018 @12:07AM (#16846613)
The amount of money flowing through the system that's being optimized might be less than the cost of a completely general data scientist trained to work with completely generalizable tooling. Many businesses are happy to be able to spend $30/month and a small slice of the time of a resident spreadsheet master in order to find an incomplete but useful list of optimizations.
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