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Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data
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this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2023
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Except every scientist and analyst. Stats, data sci and ML is done in R and Python, be it astro, health data or genomics.
If someone has been taught stats in spreadsheet software, they have have been taught wrong, period.
Also, programming is a very strong term. we're talking about stats in a scripting language, not software development in CPP.