Data science, DevOps,and drinks:The perfect combination

Donnie BerkholzRedMonk@dberkholz

First off, what are these things?

Data science

Drew Conway

DevOps

Drew Conway

Zend Developer Pulse, summer 2012Zend Developer Pulse, summer 2012

Drinks!

What can data science learn from DevOps?

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Build a culture of “analysis as code”

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Test your code and your dataFlickr: 4nitsirk

Use version control

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Catalyze collaborationFlickr: alirjd

Agile, continuous delivery

Wikipedia: Missionary

Architect for scalabilitybut don't optimize prematurely

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Monitor the output

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Conclusions: Focus on these

● Easy to replicate● Easy to build upon● Easy to scale