"We’ve all had to work with simpler tools than we might like from time to time, and I have gotten a lot of mileage out of doing regression analyses directly in SQL."

Here at Mode, we put a lot of emphasis on writing good, clean SQL. As a collaborative team, it’s important that our queries can be easily read and understood by our teammates.

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"As data scientists, our work sways elections; our models move markets; our recommendations launch and dismantle businesses. In positions of such influence, we haven’t the time to waste on petty distractions of little import. Which is why I believe it’s critical to step back...and take on a far more consequential matter: Should SQL queries use trailing or leading commas?"