Sunday 3:00 PM–3:45 PM in Production DS, Modeling - Auditorium

Why do you have to make it so complicated?

James Powell, Brandon Burroughs, Daniel Allan

Audience level:
Novice

Description

How do we communicate when it's appropriate to make things complicated? This talk will present attendees with a framework for discussing when sophistication or complexity are unnecessary and when they are required.

Abstract

"Why do you have to make it so complicated?" I think we've all heard this before when trying to convince a colleague to employ greater sophistication in their programming work. Maybe you're trying to convince them to use git, to git rebase, to test their code, to write unit tests, to document their code, to write numpydoc-compliant, autogenerated documentation.

How do we communicate when it's appropriate to make things complicated?

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