How To Say No to Useless Data Science Projects

Data Scientists and Analysts are starting to overflow their cups with mostly non-value added work at the request of stakeholders. And many don’t have the courage or confidence to say “No” to that. This also applies to many working and business professionals in other verticals and professions. Put simply, you need to build confidence, stop being a wimp, and start saying “No” to pointless work.DATA SCIENTISTS CAN BECOME THE NEW DECISION-MAKERS AT COMPANIES AND SHOULD BE PICKING THEIR OWN VALUE-ADDED PROJECTS

When a company hires a data science team, the customers of that team are typically non-technical stakeholders. They have a general idea of what they want to get out of data science, but they don’t know specifically what they want. Most of the time, the business units think of “data science and analytics” as just the team that runs reports and fetches them data when they need it (like a dog or a monkey). A data science and analytics team’s core responsibility isn’t building reports in Tableau and PowerBI; that’s the job ...


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