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Data-driven culture
From the course: Learning Data Science: Manage Your Team
Data-driven culture
- One term you might hear with data science is data-driven. It's a little bit of a tricky term. We all like to use data to drive our decisions. If you decide not to eat sushi from a gas station, then you're using past data to make a good decision. Even though you may not realize it, you're being data-driven. You're using the data to enhance your intuition. More often than not, your intuition is right, or at least, half right. Try not to think of data-driven decision making as a drop in replacement for your own intuition. A data-driven culture uses data to enhance their team's instinct, and not replace them. Your data science team will be the starting point in creating a larger data-driven organization. It's within this team that you'll start to develop a deeper relationship with your data. Try to think of data-driven organizations as companies with many data science teams. These teams create a mindset of questions and insight. They should help the organization not just collect data…
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