"No one is harder on a talented person than the person themselves" - Linda Wilkinson ; "Trust your guts and don't follow the herd" ; "Validate direction not destination" ;

February 12, 2020

My Perspective of Data Science

Data Analysis
  • Find #Insights, Turn it into Why-questions
  • Seek Surprises sudden #peaks, #lows, Harness it into How-Questions
  • Plot data in different dimensions #Month / #Year / #Sales / #Products / #Divisions, Find #Insights in every #perspective
Learn the story behind the numbers!!!

Mindset and Skill
#Skill is not just how fast you solve a problem but how many different #perspectives/ #techniques / #approach you can find to solve the problem

Domain Knowledge
If you don't understand your #domain, you won't understand your #data, you will miss the #insights and your model will not be built based on the domain needs. It is easy to do .fit, .predict but its harder to find the hidden feature variables before building the model. Understand your #data before building your ML use case. #perspective #machinelearning #datascience

General Guideline - How I evaluate data science candidates?
  • Different business problems solved and their ML lessons learned, Deep Dive on Implementation, Algo used, Features Evaluated
  • Data pipeline set up challenges faced to deploy in production
  • How do you keep track of new papers / evaluating and learning different frameworks
  • How much do you code on a daily basis for work / personal learning
  • Ability to bring different perspective/techniques solving problems
  • How Algos works, Learning's with Overfitting, Underfitting, variable selection
#DataScience Solutioning #Lessons Learnt
Step -1 - Understand / Solving a problem from business #perspective is first move
Step -2 - Scaling the solution is next milestone
Step -3 - Hosting it / Porting it is the last milestone
All the steps are important but priority relies on completion of each task in sequence so that we do not go back to fix them again. Hire talent accordingly #machinelearning #vision #perspectives

Analyze -> Solution -> Scale -> Deploy (Talent pool varies accordingly, Get the mix to excel)

The field is evolving on a daily basis. We need passionate, curious learners with an experimentation mindset!!!




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Happy Learning!!!

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