“Joel Test” for Data Science

Re:“Joel Test” for Data Science by sgt101 on Thursday August 11, 2016 @02:45AM (#12266628)

Ok - "latest tools without IT"; let's imagine that you have valuable or personal data, someone picks up an unchecked tool and heyyyyy presto! You lose all that data (well, you still have it, also other people have and your company is in the newspapers).

Also - the best tools money can buy? Where does money come into data science tools? Tensorflow = free, RStudio = free, Shiny = free (ok you can get commercial versions of the last two, and we have, but they are cheap!) Sparklr = free, Python = free....

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Re:“Joel Test” for Data Science by djcjgshjjc on Thursday August 11, 2016 @04:06AM (#12266821)

Well, the best analytics database for your use case may not be cheap. E.g. a column store database.

Even open source options can require expensive eng/ops resources to set up a cluster.

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Re:“Joel Test” for Data Science by collyw on Thursday August 11, 2016 @08:15AM (#12267560)

Oracle is probably best in class relational database, but Postgres or MySQL will work fine for most use cases.

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