We talked about:

• Audience Poll
• Andrey’s background
• What data science practice is
• Best DS practice in a traditional company vs IT-centric companies
• Getting started with building data science practice (finding out who you report to)
• Who the initiative comes from
• Finding out what kind of problems you will be solving (Centralized approach)
• Moving to a semi-decentralized approach
• Resources to learn about data science practice
• Pivoting from the role of a software engineer to data scientist
• The most impactful realization from data science practice
• Advice for individual growth
• Finding Andrey online

Links: 

• Data Teams book: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Teams-Management-Successful-Data-Focused/dp/1484262271/

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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