The Data Science Open Source Ecosystem

Linear Digressions

• Episode: The Data Science Open Source Ecosystem
• Website: Linear Digressions
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• Duration: 00:23:06
• Published: 2020-06-29 04:34

Open source software is ubiquitous throughout data science, and enables the work of nearly every data scientist in some way or another. Open source projects, however, are disproportionately maintained by a small number of individuals, some of whom are institutionally supported, but many of whom do this maintenance on a purely volunteer basis. The health of the data science ecosystem depends on the support of open source projects, on an individual and institutional level. https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/xsrt4zs2/release/2