During my tenure as a CTO for the pharmaceutical company, I had to deal with both small and large datasets for biostatistics. The gold standard for data analysis in pharmaceutical is SAS since FDA reviewers use it. Although SAS is great and I got the basic training as seen below, the cost is rather higher than I liked.

When I heard about R project through a colleague back in 2003 or 2004, I had to jump on it and find out. After evaluating what it is and where it’s headed, I instantly loved it. It was very early in development, but I knew that this would be awesome. In fact, I love it so much that I became a supporting member (see below).

I don’t list R anywhere in my CV nor rants/blogs I post since it’s been long long time and I don’t have the expertise to be comfortable with it. But now that I have to deal once again with a large dataset on my private projects, I’ll pick it up again. There may even be a video diary of my learning. 😉