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brianto2010

At RIT at least, R and NumPy aren't in the core curriculum. Instead, there is a "Statistical Computing" class which covers SAS. Most students either use Minitab or Excel. Surprisingly (or not), a lot of in-class work is done using a graphing calculator. Of course, that also carries into a lot of the homework.

I wonder, do statisticians actually use graphing calculators to do stats?

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I think of my job as essentially that of a statistician (data miner/data scientist/trader/research analyst/whatever you want to call it). I have never used a graphing calculator in my life. If I need to do a quick calculation I open a terminal and boot up R, Python or GHCi, depending on how I'm feeling and how complicated what I need to achieve is.

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