From the course: Learning Data Science: Using Agile Methodology

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Rely on serendipity

Rely on serendipity

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Rely on serendipity

- You've seen that it can be difficult to have clearly defined objectives with your data science team. Still many organizations find it difficult to even imagine working without clear objectives. You see objectives everywhere. Almost every management book talks about how to set objectives. You set career objectives. Even when you're training, there are clearly defined learning objectives. These objectives guide much of what we do, but they might not be as valuable as you think. There's been some interesting work in this area over the last few years. You'd think that questioning objectives would come from some new age social science, but it's actually coming from where you'd least expect. It's coming from the world of machine learning and artificial intelligence. These are the same people who are working to have computers display intelligent behavior. They're finding that so much of what we know is based on unplanned discovery. We actually learn more from our wandering than we do from…

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