Some people will say 'you have to learn R if you want to get a job doing statistics/data science'. I say bullshit, you have to learn statistics and learn to work in a variety of languages if you want to be any good, beyond getting a job today coding in R. R4stats has a recent… Continue reading R’s increasing popularity. Should we care?
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Teaching code, production code, benchmarks and new languages
I'm a bit obsessive with words. May be I should have used learning in the title, rather than teaching code. Or perhaps remembering code. You know? Code where one actually has very clear idea of what is going on; for example, let's say that we are calculating the average of a bunch of n numbers,… Continue reading Teaching code, production code, benchmarks and new languages