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There is a lot of low-hanging fruit available in teaching people from research backgrounds about what we would consider baseline computer use and software devel
by closeparen 8y ago
There is a lot of low-hanging fruit available in teaching people from research backgrounds about what we would consider baseline computer use and software development practices. It turns out there is a large population of brilliant people who can accomplish things in Python that I can barely comprehend in abstract, much less line for line, who have also never heard of Git, unit testing, or modularity.
- colechristensen 8y agoI guess I was under the impression that the label indicated some level of expertise in the basic tools of the trade that would differentiate it from statistics or applied math. Of course there is nothing wrong with specialization or lacking experience when it is not particularly relevant to your chosen field, but something like 'grep' would seem to be the bread and butter of data science.
- closeparen 8y agoThat would be R, Pandas, SQL, etc.