PyDataMCR - Data FAQs with the UKDataService

PyDataMCR is a strictly professional event, as such professional behaviour is expected. We welcome everyone with an interest in data.

PyDataMCR is a chapter of PyData, an educational program of NumFOCUS and thus abides by the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct https://pydata.org/code-of-conduct.html.

Data FAQs
Some questions come up again and again in relation to data industries. Questions like:

• Should I learn R or Python?
• How reproducible should my work be? What steps should I take to make it so?
• Does SQL have a place in Data Science?
• How much of your work involves "Big Data"?

As these questions come up so frequently, the UK Data Service is maintaining a Data FAQs resource (github.com/UKDataServiceOpen/Data-FAQs) where interested people can ask such questions or peruse previously asked questions to find carefully curated answers.

To kick-start this resource, PyDataMCR will collaborate with the UKDS to host a panel of experts. They will discuss these prompts, and others submitted prior to the panel event, in order to crowd-source some detailed answers.

Please feel free to open issues on our GitHub(github.com/UKDataServiceOpen/Data-FAQs/issues). If submitted in advance of the event, your question may be answered live by our expert panel!

This event supported by the UK Data Service, the UK's largest collection of social data. Check out what they do and their events at ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/events.aspx

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