Pushker Ravindra
Data Science & Engineering Lead
Bayer Crop Science
location_on India
Member since 5 years
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I have BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, Executive General Management from IIM, Bangalore and PhD in Bioinformatics / Computational Biology from UCD, Ireland. After PhD, I worked as the Head of Software Development at Genome Life Sciences, Chennai. I have more than 10 years of experience in the field of Genomic Data Science at international research organizations including UMH, Alicante (Spain), IGIB, Delhi and Monsanto, Bangalore. Currently, I am leading Data Science & Engineering platform at Bayer, Bangalore.
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Data Science Best Practices for R and Python
20 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
How many times did you feel that you were not able to understand someone else’s code or sometimes not even your own? It’s mostly because of bad/no documentation and not following the best practices. Here I will be demonstrating some of the best practices in Data Science, for R and Python, the two most important programming languages in the world for Data Science, which would help in building sustainable data products.
- Integrated Development Environment (RStudio, PyCharm)
- Coding best practices (Google’s R Style Guide and Hadley’s Style Guide, PEP 8)
- Linter (lintR, Pylint)
- Documentation – Code (Roxygen2, reStructuredText), README/Instruction Manual (RMarkdown, Jupyter Notebook)
- Unit testing (testthat, unittest)
- Packaging
- Version control (Git)
These best practices reduce technical debt in long term significantly, foster more collaboration and promote building of more sustainable data products in any organization.
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