Catherine Nelson

My latest book, “Software Engineering for Data Scientists”, was published by @oreilly.bsky.social in April this year. It’s a guide for data scientists looking to improve their coding skills, and it’s deliberately friendly. You can buy a copy here: www.amazon.com/Software-Eng...

I'm all in on coding with AI. Most days it makes me feel like when I first discovered Python - many new things are possible! This classic from xkcd (xkcd.com/353/) sums it up. Then other days, Claude says things like "Let me read the current state of the file before guessing" and I'm back to earth.

I really enjoyed this! Thank you @mkennedy.codes for inviting me on the show. Our conversation included refactoring notebooks, testing notebook-derived code, and changing your mindset when you're moving to production code. There's also a book giveaway - see the show notes to enter!

My #PyConUS talk, "Going from Notebooks to Scalable Systems" is up on YouTube - check it out if you'd like to hear about best practices for moving from Jupyter Notebooks to modular, robust Python scripts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4hy...

#PyConUS is my favorite conference. It's such a positive community. I really enjoyed meeting so many people at my talk and afterwards signing books. Thank you to @anvil.works for hosting my book signing and to @oreilly.bsky.social for providing copies of "Software Engineering for Data Scientists"!

And if you weren't able to attend my talk, here's the slides and code: github.com/catherinenel... Book signing - 2pm today at the Anvil booth in the expo hall

So many good books by the authors on this list! Check it out: go.bsky.app/5TbQa24

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