From the course: Lessons from Data Scientists

Challenges of working with a data science team

From the course: Lessons from Data Scientists

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Challenges of working with a data science team

- Some of the biggest challenges when working with data scientists is actually the scientist part. Sometimes they just want to drill too deep into a problem, try to get the perfect solution while ultimately we need to get something to market faster, or we need to just get something done. So it's always a balance between those kind of tugs and pulls and kind of directing the team in such a way. For example, when I'm working with my data science team, we'll come up with a new product or project idea, and immediately they'll come up with easily a hundred experiments that they want to run. But in reality, we don't have time to do all of that, so we really maybe have time to do 10 of those and to kind of crunch through those numbers. So it's, it's really a challenge to kind of tell them no, but at the same time, it gives them a lot of clarity and it ultimately gives the team success.

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