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| CE_19C | Mon, 8/5/2013, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM | W-Palais | |
| Practical Software Engineering for Statisticians — Continuing Education Course | |||
| ASA , Section on Statistical Computing , Biometrics Section | |||
| Instructor(s): Murray Stokely, Google | |||
| Statisticians are increasingly being employed alongside software engineers to make sense of the large amounts of data collected in modern e-commerce, internet, retail, and advertising companies. This course introduces a number of best practices in writing statistical software that is taught to computer scientists, but which is seldom part of a statistics degree. Revision control tools, unit testing, code modularity, structure, and readability, and the basics of computer architecture and performance will be covered. A few examples of real R code written in a commercial environment will be shared and discussed to illustrate some of the problems of moving from working alone or in a small group in an academic setting into a team in a large commercial setting. Some basic familiarity with programming is required. The course is language-agnostic, but R will be used in some examples. | |||
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