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Why Are Data Science Leaders Running for the Exit?

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Re: Why Are Data Science Leaders Running for the Exit?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was also my impression. It's kind of ironic that a Data Science/Strategist writing would be so heavily opinionated and have so little in term of data.

Maybe that's because the strategy is to produce bullshit

Ha, I like that the grammar of this distinguishes between "there is no strategy" and "the strategy is, actively, to produce bullshit" and lands on the second option, which jives with my experience :)

Re: Why Are Data Science Leaders Running for the Exit?

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This is an article making baseless generalizations that all data science is failing in Silicon Valley, and that the true need of a company is to hire a "data strategist." Unsurprisingly, the article is written by a self-proclaimed data strategist. This blog post would be more compelling if there were citations or even general context backing up the authors pretty wild claims ("the vast majority (we are talking 80-90%…

> This is why the failure rate of data science teams is over 90% right now.

It is unsupported in the article, but on its face, isn't a 90% failure rate about right for bleeding edge tech efforts?

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