Phil Kay: "You don’t need coding to be a chemist"Global Enablement Learning Manager Phil Kay (@Phil_Kay) loves showing people how data analytics enables better science. And he wants our customers to know that JMP cares about the bigger picture when it comes to the future of work for scientists and engineers.
Phil recently wrote a column for Chemistry World about the need – or lack thereof – for chemists to know how to code. "I have strong opinions about how people and organizations should adopt data analytics and drive digital transformation," Phil said. "I don’t expect everyone will agree with me, but discussing these things is healthy for us and for the future of science and engineering."
He points out that digital transformation is one of the biggest challenges that organizations face. There is less need for writing code (much of that is point-and-click these days) and a greater need for better data skills in the scientific community – specifically data visualization, statistical modeling, machine learning, and design of experiments – all of which JMP can assist with.
You can read Phil's Chemistry World column here. And be sure to share Phil's LinkedIn post.
Feature StoryRe: Phil Kay: "You don’t need coding to be a chemist"I agree!
Re: Phil Kay: "You don’t need coding to be a chemist"Exactly!
Re: Phil Kay: "You don’t need coding to be a chemist"Thanks, @Mark_Bailey !
Like I said, I don't expect everyone to agree with me. Some of the most interesting comments have come from people that disagree:
"Point and click software allow wonderfully complex nonlinear paths from raw data to end result." And that's a bad thing?
Re: Phil Kay: "You don’t need coding to be a chemist"I agree @Phil_Kay!
A JMP Partner in Korea once told me this.
"Requiring Coding to scientists and engineers means similar to that management ask most of their staffs to develop a document creation program by coding even though there is MS Word availble."
I would change his words as following.
"It seems that management ask most of their scientists and engineers to be skilled up with coding even though there is JMP available and they can conduct data analysis more efficiently with JMP now."
And, I think that most of their skills of coding will not be demanded pratically. Because their businesses would not require their staffs to spend their times in coding but to focus on developing and improving something as soon as possible.
Re: Phil Kay: "You don’t need coding to be a chemist"Thanks, @ChulHee_JMP . I agree. I hate seeing people wasting their time. And I hate the idea that people feel excluded from being a scientist or engineer because they think they will have to learn coding.
Re: Phil Kay: "You don’t need coding to be a chemist"If AI Chatbots like Chat GPT can write code (and they will only get better and better at this), then maybe we ought to be thinking differently in teaching curriculums about the value of coding as a learned and practiced skill for all scientists and engineers? I've long believed that rigorous practical true data-exploration based problem solving, especially in industry, is what we really need more of. This is very different from analysis masquerading as "data-driven" -- usually in the form of summary tables in PowerPoint showing the mean and standard deviation for every process or product design output and whether or not we met the spec requirement.
