Applying engineering best practices to data science is a well-intentioned effort, but it has to be done with care. The raw materials, goals and organizational roles of the two professions are different, so treating DS like eng sets it up to look like engineering done badly
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Rather than focus on changing the raw data, DSes are better suited to making their data transformations more robust to variation in said raw data. This can be hard to wrap your head around if you think data should always perfectly reflect what happened in your product.
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But it's also why it's called data SCIENCE. It's about finding signals in noise. It uses similar tools to SWE, but it's a fundamentally different craft. Being crisp about this distinction saves you the grief of looking like an amateurish engineer
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