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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Building Data Science Practice - Andrey Shtylenko