Mostly correct. This is old news in the PNW. A few corrections:
- Spill almost never happens over the top of dams, they have spillways for this.
- Forced spill due to negative prices (called lack of market spill) is the last thing to happen when prices are negative, because of the water quality issues you describe. Wind gets cut before any spill happens.
- The Bonneville Power Administration (biggest energy wholesaler in the PNW) does not pay negative prices.
I'm not sure how I feel about this, but this is a wonderful validation for the popularity of the R language. When I started using R almost 10 years ago, few had heard its name outside of select academic disciplines. Now, in addition to it being quite ubiquitous in academia, its something that I list as a main skill on my resume.
You have no idea what you're taking about. There is absolutely no better language for doing advanced statistical analysis. Python is the only thing that is close and it is lightyears behind in terms of contributed packages that provide statistical functions.
Sorry but calling R from Python just doesn't cut it. Some of the best tools in R rely on complex data structures that are not compatible with Rpy. Plus Rpy support on windows is abysmal.
You are better off using Python for all non-stats scripting, get your data set up, then analyze and plot with R.
In my experience, R is better for non-programmers precisely because it doesn't often behave like a typical programming language. It is *designed* for statistical analysis and so for someone just starting out it can be very intuitive.
I work for the government half time and am a graduate student the other half. Of course I am furloughed, but on top of that, all the data for my research comes from NOAA which has shut down all its websites! Basically I am stuck doing diagnostics on data I happen to already have. Just loving my gov't right now....
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Mostly correct. This is old news in the PNW. A few corrections: - Spill almost never happens over the top of dams, they have spillways for this. - Forced spill due to negative prices (called lack of market spill) is the last thing to happen when prices are negative, because of the water quality issues you describe. Wind gets cut before any spill happens. - The Bonneville Power Administration (biggest energy wholesaler in the PNW) does not pay negative prices.
I'm not sure how I feel about this, but this is a wonderful validation for the popularity of the R language. When I started using R almost 10 years ago, few had heard its name outside of select academic disciplines. Now, in addition to it being quite ubiquitous in academia, its something that I list as a main skill on my resume.
WOW. The ignorance in this thread is overwhelming
You have no idea what you're taking about. There is absolutely no better language for doing advanced statistical analysis. Python is the only thing that is close and it is lightyears behind in terms of contributed packages that provide statistical functions.
Wow...
Sorry but calling R from Python just doesn't cut it. Some of the best tools in R rely on complex data structures that are not compatible with Rpy. Plus Rpy support on windows is abysmal. You are better off using Python for all non-stats scripting, get your data set up, then analyze and plot with R.
In my experience, R is better for non-programmers precisely because it doesn't often behave like a typical programming language. It is *designed* for statistical analysis and so for someone just starting out it can be very intuitive.
I subscribe to all three, they are fantastic. Music print media is still alive and strong in my opinion.
Anything on the noaa.gov domain is down, try it, you'll get redirected to governmentshutdown.noaa.gov
I work for the government half time and am a graduate student the other half. Of course I am furloughed, but on top of that, all the data for my research comes from NOAA which has shut down all its websites! Basically I am stuck doing diagnostics on data I happen to already have. Just loving my gov't right now....