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I don’t see any value in these principles.

Minimal Viable Products over prototypes

What’s the difference?

APIs over databases

I feel like this is a terrible decision that has nothing to do with data science.

Clever use of computation over convenient assumptions

Why not both?

Dashboards over reports

Dislike this as well. Dashboards don’t contain analysis.

Validation, scrutiny and repeatability over convention and ad verecundiam

Sure, but this is not controversial



> Why not both?

A financial example would be that some models are designed to be particularly tractable when those in the know could use a tool like autodiff to make a more sophisticated model more usable at the same scale


Who knows if the way you interpreted these 6 random words is even in line with what the author had in mind though? It so needs fleshing out that it borders on meaningless.


Also I think the API thing if some right is the right way. Databases can become an unversioned blob for too quickly.

I don't think raw APIs are really it either, maybe a persistent airflow-y DAG type thing that's secretly backed by a proper database?




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