I'm a statistics PhD candidate trying to finish my dissertation this summer. I work in statistical computing, specifically in clustering. I try not to be too much of a crank in my opinions about statistics, programming, and data visualization.
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cranky opinions about programming: I program a lot in #R and #C and am all-in on reproducible research/knitr/rmarkdown/etc (as one expects at my alma mater), I'm not really sold on all the tidyverse hype (or ggplot!). And RStudio is nice but I use emacs more except when doing a lot of interactive stuff or compiling documents. To some people, this is heresy.
statistics: pretty ecumenical on this, though I have a lot of affection for Oscar Kempthorne's views even if I don't agree.
@gzt Hah! I suspect that you're more distracted by the visual stuff, possibly due to better abilities to understand and maintain a grasp upon the abstract work, whereas others benefit from the visuals. I suspect that having the visuals there when you want them and having them hidden away when you don't would be a good middle way.
