Re:Why R is the best coding language for data journalism
by kristofferg on Thursday December 19, 2024 @02:44AM
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You are right - the language itself can be a bit messy. R’s advantage is the massive amount of packages available. Almost no matter what niche problem you are trying to solve - someone probably made a package for it. And if not all the functionality is there: you can just add.
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Re:Why R is the best coding language for data journalism
by wdkrnls on Friday December 20, 2024 @08:16AM
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Nope. R's advantage is that the language is extremely expressive and makes many things about it's implementation extremely transparent to it's users. The huge package count for a niche language is a direct result of that.
Re:Why R is the best coding language for data journalism
by nauman_wah on Friday December 20, 2024 @08:34AM
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200% agreed. I switched from python to R for data science machine learning and data visualization and found that python is far behind .
I am able to generate and test and make machine learning models easily and in standardised manner using its tidymodels libraries while I am unable to generate models in python scikit-learn etc libraries