0162 - The Data Scientist as... with Christina Phillips

Host(s) Wenqiao Xu, Upama Ghosh

Our guest today is Christina Phillips. Christina is a senior lecturer in business analytics at Liverpool John Moores University and has worked in applied scienced research, problem solving, and solution development for industry.

Thank you for joining us, Christina, can you start by telling us a little about yourself?

1.Is data science more about statistics, application development or organisational change?

2.Where do you see the role of data analysts or scientist fitting in to existing organisations? 

3.What needs to happen to make problem solving possible? – what are your go-to approaches when setting out to solve open-ended problems?

4.Let’s say you're on a job and it becomes clear that they haven't identified the real problem...

5.Can you talk about the different hats that analytics professionals need to wear: as technical expert, facilitator, change agent etc.

6.Is failure ever an option?

7.How do you handle the politics of being a consultant?

8.Any thoughts on becoming a better communicator?

9.What ethical concerns do consultants encounter?

Well, we’ll wrap up there.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences today.

Notes:

Christina Phillips: Senior lecturer business analytics at Liverpool John Moores University and visiting research fellow at Leeds University Business School.

Co-chair of the Problem Structuring Methods special interest group at The OR Society (link)

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