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Alexander Newton - Good Practice Data Scientist, ONS

Software engineering in analysis? See what happens next!

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Reproducible Analytical Pipelines, Spreadsheets, Statistics
Three sets are shown: dreamers, coders and hackers. Where dreamers and coders intersect we have hackers. The sign for hackers has been crossed out and replaced with RAP Champions.

We're borrowing software engineering tools to make analytical code more robust, and encouraging people to ditch spreadsheets for programming languages. Our aim is ease of reproducibility, quality assurance, auditability, adaptability and sustainability of our analysis.

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