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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago

Somewhere in a backroom, there's a hamster named Julia. In a hamster ball.

[–] diseasedolm@mander.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

Oh how I wish this was the data scientists I work with

[–] Darkraisisi@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago

Probably barking up the wrong tree here, but boy do I hate R. The documentation is the worst, combined with the poor r studio experience. Vscode makes notebooks a bit better but lost a lot of functionality as far as I could tell.

Laughed so hard when I this course once they told us to do ML in R with Keras ... By calling the python API.

[–] produnis@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

DON'T HURT THE SIMPLE CHILD

[–] ergotamin@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like some people are using python just so they can say that they use python

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's more because when ds has to hand over their work to the eng team the eng team doesn't want to fuck with r

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trust me, the eng team doesn't want to fuck with Python either.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Meh lots of python stacks out there now, especially data pipes.

then typescript front ends.

Point is no one wants to support r in production

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I considered looking at R once. As a data scientist and an experienced Python user, maybe I'll see something useful. Then I learned that R uses <- for variable assignment and = for equality evaluation, and I stopped learning because I would make that mistake if I learned to switch back and forth for the rest of my life.

[–] ergotamin@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

You can also use = to assign variables in R it’s just not good practice