Sunday 1:50 p.m.–2:20 p.m. in Grand Ballroom C
Getting Started Testing in Data Science
Jes Ford
Description
How do you know if your data science results are correct? Robust software usually has tests asserting that certain conditions hold, but as a data scientist it’s often not straightforward or obvious how to integrate these best practices. Our workflow includes exploration, statistical models, and one-off analysis. This talk will give concrete examples of when and how testing should play a role, and provide you with enough introduction to get started writing your first data science tests using pytest
& hypothesis
.