The stats classes I took in grad school typically had problem sets in R, so I learned that as needed.
I got better at it in summer 2016 when I used it for the paper I worked on.
The first real job I got in tech was doing technical support for academic researchers who were using a computational reproducibility platform, so knowing a bit of R and being able to pick up enough of the other languages to get by—mostly some shell scripting and package installation commands in Python/​Julia/​etc. -- was helpful.
I didn’t really approach learning code systematically. I tried a few times to take online coding and data science classes but never finished any of them. Apparently I do my best learning ‘just in time.’ (A lovely phrase, I think, hinging on the many meanings of ‘just’.)
The data analyst job I got was in an R shop. If I had been more motivated by the problem and a better fit at the company, I might still be doing that.
Hi Victoria, thanks for asking! In sequence:
The stats classes I took in grad school typically had problem sets in R, so I learned that as needed.
I got better at it in summer 2016 when I used it for the paper I worked on.
The first real job I got in tech was doing technical support for academic researchers who were using a computational reproducibility platform, so knowing a bit of R and being able to pick up enough of the other languages to get by—mostly some shell scripting and package installation commands in Python/​Julia/​etc. -- was helpful.
I didn’t really approach learning code systematically. I tried a few times to take online coding and data science classes but never finished any of them. Apparently I do my best learning ‘just in time.’ (A lovely phrase, I think, hinging on the many meanings of ‘just’.)
The data analyst job I got was in an R shop. If I had been more motivated by the problem and a better fit at the company, I might still be doing that.