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I work in data science (came in via a maths background) but I agree 1000%. My software engineering is pretty self taught, but I make an effort to follow best co
by FridgeSeal 8y ago
I work in data science (came in via a maths background) but I agree 1000%. My software engineering is pretty self taught, but I make an effort to follow best coding practices at all times.
That said, I think it goes both ways: people from the sciences tend to be cavalier coders, and people from software background tend to be cavalier about the underlying mathematics.
Seems to me that the solution needs to be a stronger culture of both increased scientific and software engineering rigor.
- pleasecalllater 8y agoSo there is hope for you :) You care, you will learn it. There is nothing wrong in not knowing something. My main point is that too many people in data science don't care at all. They don't care about the repeatable results, about the code quality, even about units (they can even use `mb`, `Mb` and `MB` for megabytes in the same document). I hope companies will learn that it's really important that if you have code it should be a good quality code, not a randomly gathered set of lines.