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We're making data science a sport

We're making data science a sport

Public Universities Should Use Open Source Software Choosing to go open source is a big deal. It means that when asking for help or new improvements you are dealing with a highly active and generous user community which enjoys helping instead of a corporation which needs to justify the expense of providing customer service by extracting fees either directly or indirectly (through workshops, "support costs", etc.). 1. Open source platforms attract a different kind of user. Frequently university affiliated, open-source users tend to be much more generous with access to their work such that it may be possible to piggy back on the work developed by other universities or agencies which already ask many of the same questions you would like to ask. This is almost certainly not to be the case when using proprietary software primarily deployed by corporations which will in contrast guard access to their resources and copyright their content. 2. 3. 4. 5. Thanks for reading this far.

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