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How are you organizing your data for your RAG applications? I've searched all over and have found tons of tutorials about how the tech stack works, but very little about how the data is actually stored. I don't want to…

I recently finished a masters in statistics and took multiple machine learning courses in the CS department along the way. I also minored in CS in college and have been "software-engineering-adjacent" for several years,…

How important is it for data scientists to have clean, modular, reusable code? Here’s my problem: while working on a project, I’ll start off in Jupyter notebooks, toying around with the data, doing some EDA, etc.…

I’ve used experience both Python and R for years, in multiple jobs, and still, whenever I need to make a visualization that’s anything more complicated than a single-panel bar/scatter/etc plot, it takes tons of…

I'm looking for advice, commiseration, and perspective, if you have it. I'm in my early 30s and an aspiring data scientist. I minored in CS in college, and was able to pick up a lot at jobs in my early 20s, including…