πŸ”₯ Matt Dancho (Business Science) πŸ”₯
πŸ”₯ Matt Dancho (Business Science) πŸ”₯

@mdancho84

8 Tweets Jan 05, 2023
People are shocked when they learn that I picked #R over Python. It’s a true story.
I began learning data science with Python. This decision actually cost me 2-months and caused me to quit data science for a little bit.
Why? (a 🧡)
#rstats
2/n Python was too much like coding. And I came from a business background. My main tool was Excel. Python was unnatural.
A friend of mine recommended me to try #R.
I was instantly surprised at how much more intuitive it was for me given my Excel background. Here's what R had:
3/n
πŸ‘‰#R has functions just like #Excel. I could quickly summarize my data using mean(), sd(), sum(), and friends. These functions were very similar to AVERAGE(), STDEV(), and SUM() from Excel.
4/n
πŸ‘‰#R has analytics built-in. I could do correlation and make trendlines with linear regression very easily.
5/n
πŸ‘‰#R had the #tidyverse. The tidyverse blew my mind. This toolkit includes data wrangling and visualization libraries that effortlessly worked together.
6/n
πŸ‘‰ #R had the pipe! If you’ve never tried it, the pipe %>% is this amazing operation that allows you to flow your data transformations from one operation to another.
7/n
πŸ‘‰#R has reporting! I was able to make a simple PDF report in minutes versus struggling with Jupyter.
8/n
So I ended up picking #R and to this day I’m so happy I did.
Want more information on how to become a data scientist with R?
I’ve consolidated my learnings into 10 secrets that I wished I knew going into data science.
learn.business-science.io

Loading suggestions...