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Just like almost all software work is maintenance, almost all data science is data cleaning.
by disgruntledphd2 6y ago
Just like almost all software work is maintenance, almost all data science is data cleaning.
- jmatthews 6y agoI liken it to sending a chef to a grocery store. It's not just about being a good cook. Half the battle is in choosing the correct ingredients. Not just a dozen eggs, but free range where the yolks will be a vibrant orange yellow and improve the presentation. The cleanest models with the highest fidelity often fall out as the next obvious transformation of a well groomed and hygienic dataset.