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		bigiain on June 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The New York Times course to teach its reporters d... R and Python will not replace Excel until they "correctly" transform gene names into dates or floating point numbers... https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-expe... How can we have reproducibility in scientific research if we don't all make the same errors?

asdff on June 13, 2019 [–]

Don't blame excel for people being ignorant on number formatting. It's front and center in the ribbon menu.

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