Coding Best Practice

You can find guidance on coding best practice at these pages:

General Code Development

• Tidy data and Notebook vs IDE development

Python

• Our general Python guidance incl. guidance on why to use functions!
• PySpark style guide
• Very comprehensive Python guidance here on almost every aspect of Python
• Google Python style guide, which our PySpark style guide is heavily based on

R

• R guidance - in progress

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Last update: November 11, 2024

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