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Re:Ledger by codetrotter on Saturday February 24, 2024 @12:49PM (#39493512)
In fact, let’s just use Excel for everything.

Throw away all other software, you don’t need any of that.

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Re:Ledger by bombcar on Saturday February 24, 2024 @03:28PM (#39494881)
Excel is the command line of the data manipulation world.
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Re:Ledger by anthk on Saturday February 24, 2024 @04:13PM (#39495188)
Except when Excel mangles your genomics. Or dates.

Excel is the worst thing ever happened to data scientists.

If sciencist knew awk/perl + gnuplot and basic C, most of the errors would't happened.

From HN: Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070385

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Re:Ledger by nequo on Saturday February 24, 2024 @07:45PM (#39496557)
R is pretty good to boot, and has been around since the 1990s too. I would’ve said that Excel is the assembly of data manipulation and dplyr is the command line. The higher level of abstraction and the guardrails help.
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