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> Always use checked pre- and post-conditions in a data pipeline. [A] simple post-condition would have caught this issue I'm not sure they teach that in medica
by 1_player 6y ago
> Always use checked pre- and post-conditions in a data pipeline. [A] simple post-condition would have caught this issue
I'm not sure they teach that in medical school.
- avibhu 6y agoWhich I feel might be indicative of a larger problem. If you are going to deal with data (and its processing), it only makes sense to teach those skills in school itself.
- swiley 6y agoThey spend so much time memorizing random trivia maybe a course in handling data wouldn't be a bad idea.
- ArnoVW 6y agoGive them a break. They don't have the luxury of a highly-structured field, purposefuly constructed by humans (engineers & mathematiciens on top of that) with only 50 years of legacy. They have to deal with a field that was haphasardly constructed by nature over the course of 4 billion years. Imagine having to retro-document a code base with 4 billion years of history, created solely by junior developers fresh out of college..
- jussij 6y agoThis quote from the article says this work was being done be a developer(s) and if that is the case they should have know better. The problem is that PHE's own developers picked an old file format to do this - known as XLS.
- Closi 6y agoIt's unlikely this was done by a developer in reality, and it's more likely to be a data analyst that was called a developer in the press release.