Reproducible data science with Nix, part 12 – Nix as a polyglot build automation tool for data science

Nix is not only a package manager, but also a build automation tool, and you can use it to build polyglot data science pipelines in a completely reproducible way. For example, suppose that you need to mix Python, R and maybe some others tools for a project (by the way, some believe this will become the norm in the coming years, use your favourite search engine to look for “polyglot data science”…