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Fostering better coding practices for data scientists
Randall Pruim, Maria-Cristiana Gîrjău, Nicholas J. Horton
Many data science students and practitioners don't see the value in making time to learn and adopt good coding practices as long as the code "works". However, code standards are an…
Implementing version control with Git and GitHub as a learning objective in statistics and data science courses
Matthew D. Beckman, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Nicholas J. Horton +3
A version control system records changes to a file or set of files over time so that changes can be tracked and specific versions of a file can be recalled later. As such, it is an…
Teaching precursors to data science in introductory and second courses in statistics
Nicholas J Horton, Benjamin S Baumer, Hadley Wickham
Statistics students need to develop the capacity to make sense of the staggering amount of information collected in our increasingly data-centered world. Data science is an importa…