> I've worked with a lot of teams that have one smart person building stuff off to the side, in R or a Notebook, and then nobody knows how to productionize it.

> I've worked with a lot of teams that have one smart person building stuff off to the side, in R or a Notebook, and then nobody knows how to productionize it. They try to throw the algorithm over the fence. Even if the team somehow succeeds in getting it into an A/B test, it eventually falls by the wayside, unless they can build a team and workflow around that person / algorithm / methodology. In my view, this marks a cultural failure - and certainly not on the part of the 'one smart person.'