How To Improve Programming Skills, For Data Scientists And Machine Learning Practitioners

Algorithms tend to scare a lot of ML practitioners away, including me. The field of machine learning arose as a method to eliminate the need to implement heuristic algorithms to detect patterns, we left feature detection to neural networks. Still, algorithms have their place in the software and computing domain, and certainly within the machine learning field. Practising the implementation of algorithms is one of the recommended ways to sharpen your programming skills. Apart from the apparent benefit of building intuition on implementing memory-efficient code, there's another benefit to tackling algorithms which is the development of a problem-solving mindset.