The Challenge to the Data Scientist: Do You Want Me to Be a Data Scientist?

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"It doesn't mat what your job is. It doesn't matter," she says. "Just because you have a sexy title, like a dotta scientist, doesn't mean you're immune from that." The challenge to the analyst who says, i just don't want to do this grunty, shitty work if that's how they're treating it", he adds. 'I think all of us are tempted by that'

Analytics is hard (so they say... but we're not going to open THAT can of worms). Do you know what's harder? Managing analysts! I mean, they're always asking, “Why?” Sometimes, they even ask it five times! They can wind up, you know, analyzing whatever you're asking them to do! On this episode, special guest Moe Kiss (you may know her as a co-host of this podcast) joined Michael and Tim to dig into the ins and outs of the analyst/manager relationship. For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.