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by maxbond 969 days ago
The confusion here stems from an acronym collision between Exploratory Data Analysis (where R and related packages like ggplot are popular) and Electronic Design Automation.
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LOL, I just thought the person I responded to was confused.

There are so many TLA (Three Letter Acronyms) that are the same across industries with completely different meanings. I was on the ECE subreddit which is for Electrical and Computer Engineering. Someone posted a rant about how annoying these children were, how the pay was bad, and the parents were awful. There were some funny comments about how some engineers acted like children and others about the new grads. Finally someone pointed out that ECE was also Early Childhood Education and pointed them to a different subreddit.

And the Reddit group for Tcl https://www.reddit.com/r/Tcl/ often gets lost souls asking about problems with TCL tvs or phones :-(