Roaring Elephant

A little while ago, Dave came across an article by Francesca Lazzeri titled "The Data Science Mindset: Six Principles to Build Healthy Data-Driven Organizations" and in this episode we're giving our view and expand on those principles. Is it really possible to define a successful data science organization following 6 concrete principles? Are these principle a step by step, one after the other plan you can follow on the road to success, or are these principle something you need to keep in mind from the start up until the end of days? 1. Understand the Business and Decision-Making Process  We're pretty much agreeing with this one and expanding on it, we talk about the benefits of doing this exercise on streamlining the organization and security. However, to achieve the C-level support which we agree is needed, some free-form experimentation needs to take place to get to a position where you actually have something that can be shown in a clear and concise way to said C-level. However, when the step to pro