Resolving Rounding Errors and Improving Data Input Cleanliness in Financial Models

In this technical meeting, the State Changers discussed issues with code logic and how to solve them. The primary issue discussed was that a certain function was incorrectly treating values close to zero. They discussed the possibility of building new code logic to change values that are extremely close to zero to zero and maintaining any value that isn't close to zero. This led to them creating a new test function which would execute this logic.


One of the critical insights discussed during the meeting was the importance of data preparation. They emphasized that data cleaning, calculation, and presentation are the three essential steps in programming. They also addressed the challenge of identifying when to apply more comprehensive solutions versus minor fixes, guided by the criterion of which approach allows quicker progress. Although the particular platforms like Xano, WeWeb, FlutterFlow, Zapier, etc., were mentioned in the context, they did not play central roles in the ideas addressed during the meeting.


(Source: Office Hours 8/18/2023 )

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