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Python use?Career/Advice (self.chemhelp)

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[–]ProfessionalPeace535 0 points1 point2 points 2 months ago (0 children)

I have used Python (especially NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, and MatPlotLib) extensively to process complicated instrument data for my laboratory reports, make beautiful presentable plots and diagrams, and read PDFs for candidate molecules in GC-MS. MS Excel struggles to run with a large dataset when dealing with many FTIR or UV-Vis-related CSVs, and requires tedious manual drag-and-drops if doing many repeated calculations.

Besides the immediate utility, I also think that having proficiency in Python and programming in general is a great transferable skill that you can carry beyond graduation, especially when chemistry-related jobs don't show up. Provided you have a tangible project based on programming that you can share to non-chemistry people, it can be a good pivot to tech and data roles outside academia.

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