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@noellesioFebruary 2017

DATA SCIENCE IS AWESOME

Data Science is awesome!

DATA SCIENCE CAN MAKE ___ BETTER

Data Science is awesome!

...BUT IT’S A LOT OF WORK

ISN’T THERE A BETTER WAY TO DO THIS?

(We are Data Scientists, after all.)

Is Data Science more like R&D or software?

R&D

“I want to test this hypothesis”

Success is measured by model fit

SOFTWARE

“I want to change the way people act”

Success is measured by impact

Borrowing Innovative Practices

http://theleanstartup.com/

Just ship it already

Minimum Viable Models

Do you have an ‘Alpha Nerd’ problem?

Pair Programming works for Data Scientists, too.

15

Let’s Communicate More

(Or why we have scrums and retrospectives)

Empathyover elitism

Some takeaways

1) Problems can have simpler solutions

2) More communication is a good thing

3) We’re all in this together

THANK YOU