The Care and Feeding of Data Scientists

Fantastic treatment of this important topic. It’s a 50-page PDF from O'Reilly, no gate.

Over the past 5 to 10 years, data science has grown tremendously. But as young as data science is as a discipline, the craft of managing data scientists is even younger.

Many of today’s data science managers were thrust into management roles out of necessity (“battlefield promotions”) or because they were the best individual contributors, and many come from purely academic backgrounds.

At some companies, engineering or product leaders are being tasked with building new data science functions without any real data science experience of their own.

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