lean data science
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LEAN DATA SCIENCENoelle Sio Saldana
@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