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Data Science Is Not That Special
Lessons learned as a data scientist from friction with engineers
As a data scientist with a software engineering background doing various kinds of development on the side, I have often found myself wearing multiple hats and, at times, being the bridge between engineers and data scientists.
I would be lying to deny any friction between the two.
In this blog post, I will dive into my conflicting feelings as a data scientist and against data scientists. By the end of it, you should be taking away:
- 5 Realisations about Data Science,
- 15 Lessons on how to gear a well-functioning Data Science team and
- A bit of my dry humour.
Realisation 1: Data Science is all about the Hypothesis
The big tech companies and the get-rich-quick with data science video on YouTube have painted a rosy picture of data science. But take this:
Data science is more than modelling or fiddling with hyperparameters & model architectures.
Remember the scientific method that we learned in high school? That’s what science…
