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This tweet is doing much better than expected, because it's THE TRUTH! twitter.com/mikiobraun/sta…
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Matlab used to be what Python is for data analysis.
Academic institutions could use it for free. It let you work with matrices and it could even run your computations on a cluster!
The downfall was when they redefined "academic" to exclude research institutes, even public ones.
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As I told here blog.mikiobraun.de/2013/11/how-py… this was what started multiple initiatives to build a free platform for doing ML.
How Python became the language of choice for data science
Nowadays Python is probably the programming language of choice (besides R) for data scientists for prototyping, visualization, and running data...
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Because of this, many libraries started out at providing free (or "open") re-implementations of MATLAB, like octave, and most notably matplotlib.
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I'm sure there is lesson in here about aggressive changes to your pricing scheme. And about selling to academia.