Getting data Cleaning Exploratory Final result Modeling Less valuable More valuable Work only on your computer Work online (GitHub, Blog, Kaggle) How I used to think about analyses How I think about analyses now
ways to contribute to scikit-learn … Improving the documentation is no less important than improving the library itself. - From scikit-learn contributing guide (emphasis mine) https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
as used in Jim Hester’s RStudio 2018 conference talk https://resources.rstudio.com/rstudio-conf-2018/you-can-make-a-package-in-20-minutes-jim-hester qCan you open and run R / Python? qCan you install a package? qCan you write code? qCan you write a function? qCan you learn to write a function? Excellent, you can write a package!
Thomas ➔ Overcoming Social Anxiety by Steph Locke ➔ Keeping up with blogdown by Mara Averick ➔ Advice to Aspiring Data Scientists: Start a Blog by David Robinson ➔ Speaking at conference by Cassie Kozyrkov ➔ List of speaking resources ➔ R packages book by Hadley Wickham and Jenny Bryan