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Software Engineering Best Practices for Writing Maintainable ML Code

Advanced coding tips for data scientists

Hennie de Harder
Towards Data Science
11 min readAug 6, 2023

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Unlike traditional software engineering projects, ML codebases tend to lag behind in code quality due to their complex and evolving nature, leading to increased technical debt and difficulties in collaboration. Prioritizing maintainability is important to create robust ML solutions

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