Data Scientists, You Need to Know How to Code

And not just code, but write good code

Tyler Folkman
Towards Data Science
7 min readMay 10, 2021

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I know what you’re thinking — “Of course I know how to code, are you crazy?”

You write tons of code in Jupyter notebooks, hundreds of lines, every day. Clearly, you can code. It's not as if you are training machine learning models by hand or in Excel (though, that is possible).

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