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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by bigiain on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:45PM (#20171436)
R and Python will not replace Excel until they "correctly" transform gene names into dates or floating point numbers...

https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-expe...

How can we have reproducibility in scientific research if we don't all make the same errors?

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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by asdff on Thursday June 13, 2019 @03:37PM (#20177938)
Don't blame excel for people being ignorant on number formatting. It's front and center in the ribbon menu.
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