Version Control for Data Scientists: A Hands-on Introduction

Peter Bell
Towards Data Science
10 min readOct 8, 2019

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Historically, many data scientists didn’t use “software development” tools like version control systems. These days as their code becomes more sophisticated and data scientists are increasingly influenced by their software engineering partners, it’s becoming increasingly important to learn how to skillfully use a version control system like Git.

In this brief, hands-on introduction, you’ll learn just enough Git so that when you get a job as a data scientist you’ll be able to keep track of your changes to share them with your…

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