I can now confidently say I've mastered both Python and R and here is what I've learned:

As far as data science is concerned, the only thing that matters about a programming language is whether anybody has already written that package you need.

how much money an academic data scientist spends on their office vs their computer setup

Apologies everyone. I seem to have been blue checked against my will.

Want to take your data science game to the
next level? Here’s the one weird trick that statisticians don’t want you to know about. Look between E and T on your keyboard.

My biggest beef with IQ is how much of human cognitive ability it almost completely fails to capture: political cunning, memorization, artistic skill, musical ability and even creative genius. You could literally be world class at any these and still have a pretty average IQ.

R vs python. don’t care. machine learning vs statistics. don’t care. bayes vs frequentist. don’t care. not important. don’t care.

use what you need to use to get to where you need to get to.

My biggest beef with IQ is how much of human cognitive ability it almost completely fails to capture: political cunning, memorization, artistic skill, musical ability and even creative genius. You could literally be world class at any these and still have a pretty average IQ.

Periodic reminder. This dataset is bullshit.
- 104 countries had no data so they guesstimated based on surrounding countries
- the IQ for Guinea was based on kids in a mental disability home
- one of the authors was ruled a white nationalist by the southern poverty law center