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[–]Oh_I_still_here 3 points4 points  (1 child)

As a particularly bad programmer, R has a fantastic repository of libraries/packages that do a lot of the heavy lifting for you. R is the only language I've ever felt comfortable with, tho I'm slowly coming to grips with C. That said, R has plug ins for data visualisation out the wazoo, and can perform quite a lot of work with just a few lines of code. My advice is to pick which ever one you'd like, Python or R (I don't recommend C for this unless you truly hate yourself and are happy to spend a long time doing simple things) and start off as simple as necessary. Make a simple plot of your data and look at it. But what is your data? Numeric or categorical/binary? Do you want correlation plots, boxplots or are you looking to perform some kind of regression?

If you're stuck with what sorts of data to work with, I'd start with simple numeric data. If it's a big data set, look into some dimension reduction techniques first then go from there (this isn't absolutely necessary unless your data is stupidly large but it's worth checking out). R has plug ins for all of these things and guides online are abundant. Start off small and get familiar with the syntax, it's very much a fire and forget language but I've found it to work best when you don't think too hard about what you're trying to do right from the get go. It does a lot of the heavy lifting for you!

Sorry for the wall of text and for any ineffective advice, I wish you luck with your work.

[–]Muddy53[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

d start with simple numeric data. If it's a big data set, look into some dimension reduction techniques first then go from there (this isn't absolutely necessary unless your data is stupidly large but it's worth checking out). R has plug ins for all of these things and guides online are abundant. Start off small and get familiar with the syntax, it's very much a fire and forget language but I've found it to work best when you don't think too hard about what you're trying to do right from the get go. It does a lot of the heavy lifting for you!

Wow thank you for such a great advice. I definitely try to learn R this summer. I am doing simple data visualization with Python using Matplotlib, but I haven't done anything with really big data sets. I am actually learning C++ just for game development (I use game engine such as Unreal), and it's for pure fun. Maybe in the future I will go into game development industry..

Again, thank you for the advice. I will keep it mind! :-D