SPUG: Fwd: Extended Tableau Trial Now Available
Michael R. Wolf
michaelrwolf at att.net
Fri Feb 20 16:00:57 PST 2009
On Feb 20, 2009, at 12:34 PM, Ted Larson Freeman wrote:
> Absolutely. Choosing Perl for data analysis tasks such as making heat
> maps would be like choosing assembly language to write a web services
> framework.
Agreed.
And as was said at the meeting (therefore not posted to the list)...
the client expressly did *not* want data analysis. They only wanted
one "pretty picture" for the marketing department. Given the one-off
nature of the project, Perl was chosen for its familiarity to the
programmer and group (not for its (lack of) general-purpose data
analysis).
Michael
P.S. Thanks for posting a pointer to some R heatmap code.
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Michael R. Wolf
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