... about bikeshedding the indentation aesthetics or pedantic formatting standards, ultimately, data science code quality is about correctness and reproducibility. It's no secret that good analyses are often the result of very scattershot and serendipitous explorations. Tentative experiments and rapidly testing approaches that might not work out are all part of the process for getting to the good stuff, and there is no magic bullet to turn data exploration into a simple, linear progression.