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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Why should economists learn programming?

I’ve seen some economists on reddit suggesting others to learn programming. Why?
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Any job that an economist is likely to have involves making statistical inferences using data. Now you're probably not going to do this by hand, as datasets will have observations running from a couple dozen to millions. Computer programming allows you to clean, merge, and analyze datasets at a reasonable speed.