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Data Scientists Should Know Software Engineering Best Practices #90

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oleksis opened this issue Sep 16, 2020 · 0 comments

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oleksis commented Sep 16, 2020

TL;DR

To be an indispensable data scientist, one should know and apply software engineering best practices.

Article Link

https://towardsdatascience.com/data-scientist-should-know-software-engineering-best-practices-f964ec44cada

Author

Kurtis Pykes

Key Takeaways

Software engineering practices data scientists should know:

Clean code (adhere to PEP8 for Pythonistas);
Applying effective modularity in coding (e.g. don't repeat yourself, single responsibility principle, open-closed principle)
Code refactoring for improved performance and readability and reduced complexity
Testing
Code review

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Useful Tools

PEP8

Comments/ Questions

I must adhere to PEP8 consistently when I code in Python.

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