From the course: Learning Data Science: Using Agile Methodology
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Ignore business value
From the course: Learning Data Science: Using Agile Methodology
Ignore business value
- Even when your team finds something interesting, you still have to connect it to real business value. It's not easy to connect exploration to business value. Often in data science, you don't know the business value, until after you've found the insight. You have to go through the entire life cycle, before you can deliver anything interesting. That's one of the key benefits of working in sprints. You'll deliver stories a little bit at a time, every two weeks. Each sprint, you'll build on what you know. The research lead can evaluate your insights and connect it to real business value. If the team is on the wrong path, then they can pivot to something more interesting. I once worked for a retailer, that was trying to improve their worker safety. They created a Hadoop cluster, that collected all of their unstructured data. The cluster had video, images, and injury reports. The data science team used this data to create a word cloud of all the organization's job injuries. Then the team…
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