02-23-2022, 01:43 PM
mattkime wrote:
I know its probably okay to use excel for this sort of thing, but the programmer in me can't accept it.
Also, a friend of mine pointed out that I'd probably have an easy time moving into a number of fields since I'd have the computational stuff down. I don't know if thats true but I wouldn't be dumping data into spreadsheets except to pass it on to someone else.
The problem is you need to be a programmer with good technical skills if you want to be able to do that. As well as being able to write database queries and/or reports you would need to be able to install and configure whatever that database is and troubleshoot issues, create tables, etc.
That would either require 2 people, one to manage the database and the researcher that knows what they need it to do. Or one VERY talented individual that most likely has better things to do than this.