Make Sure You Communicate Value | Data Science Hangout Highlights

RStudio is joined by Tori Oblad, Data Officer at WaFd bank, to discuss how data scientists can become leaders within their organizations.

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They get so excited about the modeling that they forget that actually we have to like make value or there is no reason that we exist. We're just becoming an expense.

So I've had to have those conversations before. I know this is exciting, but there is a balance between figuring out a really cool way of doing this and giving real value without taking too much time. Those are conversations. And depending on the person, there are just people that would love to be in academia but are not.

They get so excited about the modeling that they forget that actually we have to like make value or there is no reason that we exist. We're just becoming an expense.

So some of the PhDs I have had more of that with. And I think that's just because, like, you've been in school forever. That is what you do.

Communicating results to leadership

So I had one other thought because we're still talking.

Getting people to present their results is useful. But I've had to coach multiple people being like, OK, remember who's in the audience. You're talking to the CEO. Is he going to care about this? No. He cares about his financials showing this, this, and this. So how can you relate this back instead of spoon feeding it, though? Like, you've got to get them to actually understand how to do that, which takes time.

Make Sure You Communicate Value | Data Science Hangout Highlights

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Communicating results to leadership

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