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Am I too dumb for research? 2017-07-29 08:22:13 Post No. 9072095
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>want to find out if there is a connection between average annual temperature and housing prices
>Open excel
>import a list of all the cities in my metro area
>Cant find a list of average temperature for anything but major cities
>Cant find a website with complete data for individual cities
>finally find a site, but I have to manually type in each cities name and copy paste the data to excel
>over 150 cities
>23 cities in
>find out the site only has data on 70% of these cities
>Cant will myself to spend another hour doing this
>Damn this would be so much easier if I knew how to code
>look up R tutorial and study for 1 hour
>realize it will take me months to even be able to code my original simple task
>give up
How do I get out of this trap?
It takes too long to learn to program, but it is completely unsustainable to manually enter all my data like this.
But I really want to know if there is a correlation.
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you should try using python instead, it's a lot more intuitive for things like data/information processing
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>>9072095
Keep trying anonfriend. You're learning the best way possible: necessity. Most people try to learn for the sake of learning, which is really great, but they either get bored of it part way through because of a lack of applications or they have trouble implementing what they've learned due to a lack of practical knowledge.
Get off 4chan and keep trying. You will never feel better than after completing something you've put some real work in to.
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It takes 5 mins to write comparison script in python
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>>9072145
Stop taunting me.
I dont know anything about python.
I know its easier that doing it by hand. I just cant bring myself to study 40 hours to resolve such a simple question.
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>>9072150
it doesn't take 40 hours to learn python! it basically reads just like english. it's meant for this sort of thing
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>>9072095
First thing. There are great sites for finding weather/temperature information that output CSV files so you don't have to write a dumb program to scrape it off the internet. Check EPA, NOAA, NASA.
Second.. use something better than excel that operates external to the dataset.. Matlab/Igor/OriginLab are good.
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>>9072212
Thanks. I am econ student, so I am very familar with where I can get that kind of data, but I was completely clueless for equivalent sites in meteorology.
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>>9072150
but once you spend that 40 hours youll be able to solve many questions
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>>9072095
im 50% throught a python book now. Ty for the inspiration anons.
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