Collar City Bridge
In 1978, the Collar City Bridge was one of the last big Urban Removal projects in Capital Region, ramming it's way through downtown Troy, leaving it's noisy and smelly mark on an area just north of the downtown.
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In 1978, the Collar City Bridge was one of the last big Urban Removal projects in Capital Region, ramming it's way through downtown Troy, leaving it's noisy and smelly mark on an area just north of the downtown.
I really like R, I find it a useful tool for both my personal data work and mapping along with the things I do professionally as the Data Services director for Assembly. RStudio is a nice simple IDE, it works and works well. But I have this nagging suspicion that R is not a real programming language, that it has no future, and only people who really use R for much of anything useful are academics.
I know that’s a lie, mostly told by fan boys of Python. There are tons of packages for R and new ones keep being written, and it’s a widely used language for data science. I’ve used Python, sometimes that’s the only tool for the job, but it’s really not my favorite language. I just don’t like the use of spaces and line breaks for flow control. I would much rather have more freedom to lay out my code as I see as readable and logical, how I see things and matches my work flow. I learned Python originally for writing QGIS plugins to supplement making maps for the blog, and then I learned PANDAS 1.0 which was an awesome tool for processing data, until I discovered R and the tidyverse.
I am trying to do more coding with C and Rust. And learning a bit of Java and other languages. I want to be fluent in as many programming languages and pick up skills that I can quickly transfer to whatever is the fashionable language of the day. As many of the newer programming concepts make programming faster and better. Plus I want to have marketable skills, which I am not sure if the R programming language really counts as a marketable skill. Yes, I do awesome data work with it, filtering and processing millions of records each day with it, but I hardly find it to be professional solution that is used by leading tech people for such purposes.