The Most Important Programming Skill for Data Scientists #datascience #programming #functions

Key Takeaways

if you find yourself copying and pasting code the most important skill you need to learn is writing functions imagine you're analyzing test scores for drama math arm French four subjects four sets of code you import the data and do some cleanup you're writing the same code four times and even though you can copy and paste some it it's more work in fact there an even bigger problem one of these co- chunks is wrong can you spot the error the query command for the friend of state to set is missing a tier a subtle tide board that will give you the wrong answer and ruin your analysis by writing a function you can reduce the workload can make your code easier to read and help avoid mistakes well coding mistakes anyway to learn more check out these data Camp courses in first chapter three that's why I believe that