Re:You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI
by dagw on Monday April 16, 2018 @07:24AM
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I thought the argument that a command line gives you reproducibility in a way that a GUI doesn't was good.
I fundamentally disagree with that. I work mainly we geo-data analysis and use programming, command line tools and GUI tools. And honestly setting up a data processing pipe line in a GUI like FME is much easier and more reproducible out of the box than whatever happens to be left over after I've been screwing around with a bunch of random command line tools for a couple of hours. The main thing you lose is some flexibility.
I fundamentally disagree with that. I work mainly we geo-data analysis and use programming, command line tools and GUI tools. And honestly setting up a data processing pipe line in a GUI like FME is much easier and more reproducible out of the box than whatever happens to be left over after I've been screwing around with a bunch of random command line tools for a couple of hours. The main thing you lose is some flexibility.