How to Practice Documentation as an Aspiring Data Scientist

Think of the last project you worked on. Do you remember every step you took in that project? From every data manipulation step to the machine learning technique you incorporated? Now try remembering the steps from your project before that. Do you remember all the steps there? How about the project before that? Or the one a few months before that?

If you don’t remember every step, that is ok (though if you could, that is impressive)! As you do more projects, you start to only remember the more recent ones. But those prior…