If a few months ago someone mentioned program or coding language that was used for statistical analysis and was gaining popularity.
Anyone know that may be?
If a few months ago someone mentioned program or coding language that was used for statistical analysis and was gaining popularity.
Anyone know that may be?
R?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_%28programming_language%29
Maybe? I thought Swank used it, but I dunno.
I would have guessed R as well - our "Math Guy" at work uses it for prototyping statistical analyses. It's one of the newer languages that has had its popularity explode over the last few years.
Yep, “R” is what the cool kids are using.
I teach advanced engineering statistics in a corporate setting and many of my students are fresh out of university so I hear a lot of chatter about it.
“R” isn’t very attractive to me as the cost of buying top of the line, established statistical software such as MiniTab represents a tiny fraction of my overall costs and since I’m answerable to the FDA where everything needs to be formally validated, I won’t dream of using anything other than what they’re accustomed to seeing and “feel” is the best.
And is there a free online course to learn R?
Heck, is there free course to learn MiniTab?
Here's something for R:
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/r.html
R is one of the most lucrative programming languages to know right now, BTW.
GameboyRMH wrote: Here's something for R: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/r.html R is one of the most lucrative programming languages to know right now, BTW.
So, by the time you learn it, it will have been replaced by something else, I guess.
Streetwiseguy wrote:GameboyRMH wrote: Here's something for R: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/r.html R is one of the most lucrative programming languages to know right now, BTW.So, by the time you learn it, it will have been replaced by something else, I guess.
Yep, if you're gonna language-hop you need to be a programming language hipster, to know the best new thing before it was cool. However, surfing the wave of hot new languages is maybe the only way to make good money programming apart from getting yourself into the "startup scene" in one of the half-dozen US cities that has one.
PHeller wrote: And is there a free online course to learn R? Heck, is there free course to learn MiniTab?
In terms of MiniTab, you can get a trail offer for the application and once you’re in, there are tutorials and a help wizard and a standard help library.
Googling what you want to do (logistical regression, pairwise comparison, etc.) and adding “MiniTab” reliably produces good results.
Also, MiniTab sponsors live workshops in major cities that are very reasonably priced.
Or, you could just come work for my company and get MiniTab and an instructor with a peculiar fascination with magic spinning rotors for freeeee!
Thanks all. I'll be sure to check them out. Just looking for resume builders, is all. Stuff where I can "yes, I have heard of that, no I only took a free online course for it."
It's amazing how sometimes such brief and minor knowledge of a skillset can put you on top of the applicant stack.
GameboyRMH wrote: R is one of the most lucrative programming languages to know right now, BTW.
Less to do with the language itself, more to do with the field it's being used in and the background people using R have to have/tend to have.
"Big" data analysis is pretty hot right now, so if you have proven skills in statistical analysis, there are well paid jobs out there for you. Knowledge of R comes with the territory, not the other way around.
AAARRRRRRRRRRRRRHHHH!!!
No seriously. I use it for statistics and data visualization when I can't cheat and just use Excel. I don't script in it or anything crazy, but I'll make a few one-liners from hell on occasion.
Making charts "pretty" in R is a PITA. This link helps: http://www.cookbook-r.com/Graphs/
I also made a cheat sheet for biostatistics which I still refer to, mainly for trying to figure out what test and how to format it. http://kylini.com/ul/rnotes.pdf and http://kylini.com/ul/rnotes2.pdf
Johns Hopkins offers a 9 or 10 class Data Science Specialization through coursera. It's taught using R. I think they split it into a few too many chunks, but it does make scheduling them easier.
https://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1/courses
keethrax said:Johns Hopkins offers a 9 or 10 class Data Science Specialization through coursera. It's taught using R. I think they split it into a few too many chunks, but it does make scheduling them easier.
https://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1/courses
Zombie thread, but I am taking this specialization now. I'm excited.
Is R a pretty simple transition from Matlab?
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