Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
by BeetleB on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @05:02PM
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And we go full circle. I learned pandas in 2012 so I don't have to deal with Excel or JMP scripting.
Still use Excel for quick stuff but otherwise it's pandas for me.
Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
by hermitcrab on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @05:57PM
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The JMP buy page doesn't even give you a price. How expensive is it?
Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
by analog31 on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @07:28PM
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I work at a shop where a few people are JMP users. I think it's a problem when a proprietary app is only available to a handful of users at a site -- they tend to get a lot of work dumped on them, and nobody can use their stuff without going back to them. It's a different experience when a site has a site license.
This isn't specific to JMP of course. A good thing about Excel is that businesses are OK with just paying for "everybody" to have it.
Also, people use Excel for more than analysis. It's also a crude database and platform for creating small "apps" that do things, that are easy to share with others.
Trivia: JMP stands for "John's Macintosh Project".
Also, the entire semiconductor industry depends on JMP just like the entire pharmaceutical industry depends on Minitab.