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"Hi Steve, Just noticed your comment to Richard (must have been preoccupied in mid-December.) I'm curious about your statement that the SAS data step, proc, macro, etc. are clunky. As SAS studio is taking off, most "programming"…"

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"Rafael, Thanks for posting this. I regularly check the posts here and have always wondered why so few people comment or react to things that are said (this seems to be the norm in many data science forums.) I would not have that guessed…"

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Short Bio: Former CIA Analyst (15 years, about 2/3 working on Russian military, then following international telecom/computer industry and supporting trade negotiators), worked on Market Intelligence at IBM, AT&T, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Department of Energy R&D lab), Cisco. Transitioning into Marketing/Business Analytics using SAS and SQL, probably adding Python or R at some point.

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Comment on "Why R is Bad for You"

Posted on May 25, 2017 at 8:30am 1 Comment 2 Likes

There seems to be a lot confusion about the role of programming in relation to the Data Science platforms that research firms Gartner and Forrester have identified as the future of Data Science in large corporations. For example, numerous people have stated that SAS is pushing a drag-and-drop platform (Enterprise Miner) that somehow limits choices and is destined to fail due to the fact that using programming (that is, R) allows greater flexibility.

It’s certainly…

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