#26 Spreadsheets in Data Science

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

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