> You start with a question, conduct experiments, analyze results, adjust your hypothesis, and repeat the process.

This is missing my pet step: doing the literature review.

I’m pretty ambidextrous when it comes to Python and R, so I’m not typically a combatant in the data science language flamewars.

But... for as much as the Python community likes to assert their superior coding chops, I’ve observed that the R community does a much better job of reading about prior art.