In part one of this blog post we discussed the traits of people you should try to build in a data science team. Of course technical, statistical, programming and mathematical skills are needed. However, it takes much more. We discussed the following traits: The Pioneer, The Cattle Herder, The Muscle, and The Story Teller. See below for that blog post:
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I was deep into a presentation at a major retailer. In the darkened room, a lone hand shot up. “John, we spend 80% of our time on data load and prep. Only 20% is used to produce analytics. We don’t like that ratio.”
The speaker was right. About 80% of the analytics process is spent on data preparation and loading. Numerous examples come to mind. I remember a project for an auto insurance company using telematics and driver behavior. The one-off code to prepare the data took three days…
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