Hello, Juan here! It’s been a few months since my last post. We have been quite busy at DSOC releasing some sweet stuff for Sansan users, and I’m still working on the next part of the Structural Estimation Series. For now, I want to talk about coding style.
Coming from Economics, my programming education was limited to punching my keyboard until STATA gave me some results. I was rarely asked to share my code because I mostly did research on my own; when I had to, the fact that everyone’s code was all over the place was just something normal. In fact, there's this implicit belief that data analysis is not "coding" in the sense that web devs and Machine Learning engineers use it.