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Building a Data Science Capability: Inspirational Keynote at Data Leaders Summit Europe

I’ve just delivered the inspirational keynote at Data Leaders Summit Europe, 2018. Lots of great engagement and feedback. In particular, it seems people liked a clear definition of what data science actually is and the practical steps (miss-steps) I took in building a capability at Sainsbury’s.

13 Steps to Better Data Science: A Joel Test of Data Science Maturity

Data Science teams have different levels of maturity in terms of their ways of working. In the worst case, every team member works as an individual. Results are poorly explained and impossible to reproduce. In the best case, teams reach full scientific reproducibility with simple conventions and little overhead. This leads to efficiency and confidence in results and minimal friction in productionising models. It is important to be able to measure a team’s maturity so that you can improve your ways of working and so you can attract and retain great talent. This series of questions is a Joel Test of Data Science Maturity. As with Joel’s original test for software development, all questions are a simple Yes/No and a score below 10 is cause for concern. Depressingly, many teams seem to struggle around a 3.

10 Data Science Capabilities (and supporting tools)

People want some guidance in what can be a very overwhelming and fast moving field. Managers want to know what to buy and where to invest training. Junior data scientists, students, dev ops engineers and system administrators want to know what to learn. I will focus on the important capabilities for a Data Science team and the tools I have found useful for enabling those capabilities.

Data Scientists and data science managers want some guidance on supporting tools choice for their data science capabilities. Managers want to know what to buy and where to invest training. Junior data scientists, students, dev ops engineers and system administrators want to know what to learn. I will focus on the important capabilities for a Data Science team and the tools I have found useful for enabling those capabilities.