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>what exactly it is the person wants to do (Analyze Data? Build an Analytics Pipeline/Architecture? Write Software/Services? Be an Analytics IT person?). But y
by navigatesol 8y ago
>what exactly it is the person wants to do (Analyze Data? Build an Analytics Pipeline/Architecture? Write Software/Services? Be an Analytics IT person?).
But you realize that the vast majority of businesses in North America need someone to solve all of those problems. They aren't going to hire and cna't afford an experienced data team of specialists.
This is the point of the article. Getting the 80% is far more valuable than having some PhD optimizing the hell out of features. Silicon Valley tends to overthink things.
- apohn 8y ago>But you realize that the vast majority of businesses in North America need someone to solve all of those problems. They aren't going to hire and cna't afford an experienced data team of specialists. The vast majority of business don't need Data Scientists. They need a BI person with SQL skills and some of the skills of a Database Admin. What most companies really need is a good set of Dashboards and clean data to feed it. This enables the business people to get the information/visibility they need an make decisions. Also, most businesses should not be building analytic services and deploying them - they should be paying for a good product with a cloud or easy on-prem install and getting support from the company that sells the product. A few licenses of a good BI product are a lot cheaper than a Data Scientist.