What does a data science team need to thrive?

(upbeat music)…- [Interviewer] So what does a data science team…need to thrive?…Let's say I put a team into place.…What tools or resources will they need?…- Well, the first thing that a data science team needs…is actually they need to be part of the team.…The broader team.…Most people try to say, "Hey look, I've got a…"data science team," and they just put them in.…And then that team gets what you might call…is organ rejection,…where the antibodies attack it.…

And so what you need them to have…is you have to create pathways…for them to actually be part of every team,…and be able to say, "Hey, how can I add value here?"…"What's another way we might be able to work?"…A data science team without access to data…is not much of a team.…(DJ laughing)…And it's surprising how often a data science team…is brought into a company,…or people take incredible efforts to build a team,…and they don't have access to any data.…So once that has happened, and the team…has access to the data,…they have to be able to clean the data.…

It's still, to this day, that it's about 80% of the work…