#26 Spreadsheets in Data Science

DataFramed

English - June 11, 2018 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 237 ratings
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Why are spreadsheets ubiquitous in data analytics, why are so many data scientists anti-spreadsheet? Join Jenny Bryan, a software engineer at RStudio & recovering biostatistician who takes special delight in eliminating the small agonies of data analysis, and Hugo to discover why spreadsheets are in fact necessary in data analytics and how spreadsheet workflows can be incorporated into more general data science flows in sustainable and healthy ways. Welcome to the future.

Links from the show

Best Practices for Using Google Sheets in Your Data Project
Jenny Bryan's repository of scary Excel stories
Sanesheets, a self-proclaimed > by Jenny Bryan
DataCamp's first two free courses on spreadsheets