Best coding tips for data scientists

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One of the biggest tools within data science is coding, so let’s talk about some of the best coding tips for data scientists! The specific languages we’ll be hitting on in this article are Python and R!

Python

Finding Differences In a List

Next up, an awesome functionality with Python is being able to find the differences in a list. Now, let’s take a look at the following example:

set1 = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]set2 = [ 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ]

Based on this code, we have just created 2 lists full of numbers, now let’s say we wanted to find which numbers are not in both the lists, we can use the set() function:

set(set1) — set(set2)

The output will be the numbers not in both:

Hiding Warnings