Economics Nobel laureate Paul Romer is a Python programming convert
Am I missing something or are parts of this article really distorted?For example, this seems to set up most of the article:"Economics involves a lot of math and statistics. The most commonly used tools to crunch numbers are the spreadsheet software Microsoft Excel and programming languages Stata and Mathematica."Is this really true? Mathematica and Stata seem like established but niche products to me at this point. I wouldn't say either of them are "the most commonly used tools to crunch numbers."If you asked me to predict what a quantitative economist would be using, it would be Python, followed by R, and maybe followed by Java or C, or something like that.This was an interesting article in the sense I like learning these sorts of things about people, but the premise seemed off to me.But I'm not an economist so maybe this is something about economics per se.