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A Randomized Controlled Trial on the Nomenclature of Scientific Computing
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Timothy Kluthe; Hannah Stabler; Amelia McNamara; Andreas Stefik – Computer Science Education, 2025
Background and Context: Data science and statistics are used across a broad spectrum of professions, experience levels and programming languages. The popular scientific computing languages, such as Matlab, Python and R, were organized without using empirical methods to show evidence for or against their design choices, resulting in them feeling…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Data Science, Statistical Analysis, Vocabulary