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by kristjansson 911 days ago
> The result is that I have an actual codebase to work with now rather than a billion broken notebooks.

This is the biggest part. Giving yourself permission to make real abstractions, rather than forcing yourself to go directly from data-on-disk to pandas (or whatever) makes it that much easier to test, repeat, modify, and extend whatever analysis you're working on.