Recently, the Data Science Team at AccuWeather has been promoting modular coding to better our coding skills and make our work more efficient. So what is modular coding? Per wikipedia, modular programming is a software design technique that emphasizes separating the functionality of a program into independent, interchangeable modules, such that each contains everything necessary to execute only one aspect of the desired functionality. To simply put, it means that anything you will need to use repeatedly should be written into a function or even a module that you can just easily call/import it.
If you have viewed my bio, you probably noticed that I don’t have a science or engineering background, so how come I end up with data scientist? Well, it turns out that you don’t need a science or engineering background to become a data scientist! Here’s my personal trajectory. I think it’s highly reproducible:)
In Sep 2014, I was hired as a marketing research analyst by AccuWeather to work on AW’s new adventure: IoT or we call it emerging platform projects.