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Ask HN: Data scientists, what does your workflow look like?
Hi HN-ers,
I'm doing some research on data scientists and learning more about:
- what company size should you start having a data scientist on board?
- as a data scientist, what does your workflow look like?
- do you have any side projects? if no, why not?
- how does your output look like for your data science work? (Excel, slides, API, database updates, etc.)
- uptownfunk 8y agoOne of the following: RStudio > write.table(x, “clipboard”, ...) > paste to excel > email data to BA who makes slide Python/Anaconda + jupyterlab nbs + sklearn Excel + Solver + PowerPoint Obviously track everything on Git etc. Many more things you can do here: Use R notebooks, Jupyter notebooks, even have a build server and make each one of your projects an R package
- tixocloud 8y agoInteresting. Do you code in both Python and R? What would be your rational for picking one over the other? Also, would you have a need for a build server?
- uptownfunk 8y agoYes code in both. Depends on who I am working with really, prefer R but python much easier to integrate in a production environment. I don’t have a need personally but some companies that are doing industrial scale modeling (on the order of building and maintaining thousands of models) do use a build server to Basically check that code is formatted properly and can have a model run in a somewhat automated fashion.
- RayDonnelly 8y agoDo you use Anaconda's R. If so I'd like to know of any rough edges (package count being a known one we're looking to address). Thanks.
- tixocloud 8y agoWhat makes productionizing R difficult? I'm curious about whether the rise of Python in data science is really just because of the lack of flexibility to integrate with other systems. I've read that R seems to do better in data science/analytics work but when it comes to integration, it's more challenging. And any insights on which companies are already doing industrial scale modeling?