Should i learn R?

[shoshi]

Nope. I use MS-SQL which uses SSRS/SSIS/SSAS. I use SSIS and T-SQL to get my data into a data warehouse where I will use SSAS to convert that into a OLAP along with some MDX thrown in for fun. It has been years since I've used MySQL - it was always pretty far behind all of the other big hitters like Oracle [whom now owns MySQL], DB2, MS-SQL. I was a college professor for a while where I got started by teaching MS-SQL. That moved to all of the other topics until I was the dean of computer programming and computer technology. Back in the real world now.
SQLite has been useful for tiny projects and I have been known to use it in conjunction with Python.
I have always loved the data side but did get my start with programming. Being able to make sense of a mess of data is something that I will also do for fun as well as my day job. For example, I am taking a tiny break from working on a new OLAP project where I will be able to figure out when and why people drop their insurance on their cars. When I get home, I might play around with my weather data where I have daily weather for every county in the US.
For Fun
I was also playing around with some of my waze data where I was discovering speed traps on a road that I haven't been on. For Fun but also because I just drive too fast.

Do you ever create algorithms to predict weather patterns?

 

[turbofish]

Do you ever create algorithms to predict weather patterns?

Actually I just look at apps on my phone to see what the weather is going to be.
I first got into collecting and then analyzing NOAA data was I kept hearing about this whole climate change freaking out so I thought I would take a look at it myself. Then you discover how many people reporting on the climate change don't really know what they are talking about.
Then it became just a weird data hobby.
Once I created a database and imported some space probe data just to see if I could - 1.3 trillion rows of data. It was the challenge that time, not the actual data. I ended up throwing all that away.
Also have census data that I incorporate into my other data along with a zip code database that I purchase that is updated monthly. For fun