Encapsulation: A Software Engineering Concept Data Scientists Must Know To Succeed | by Benjamin Lee | Jan, 2025

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Simple concepts that differentiate a professional from amateurs

Data science attracts a variety of different backgrounds. From my professional experience, I’ve worked with colleagues who were once:

• Nuclear Physicists
• Post-docs researching Gravitational Waves
• PhD’s in Computational Biology
• Linguists

just to name a few.

It is wonderful to be able to meet such a diverse set of backgrounds and I have seen such a variety of minds lead to the growth of a creative and effective Data Science function.

However, I have also seen one big downside to this variety:

Everyone has had different levels of exposure to key Software Engineering concepts, resulting in a patchwork of coding skills.

As a result, I have seen work done by some data scientists that is brilliant, but is:

• Unreadable — you have no idea what they are trying to do.

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