“Joel Test” for Data Science

Re:“Joel Test” for Data Science by kfk on Thursday August 11, 2016 @02:02AM (#12266520)

meh... for me number 1 should be: do they understand domain knowledge beats fancy analytics hands down most of the times or do they spend their time optimizing things nobody cares about?

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Re:“Joel Test” for Data Science by dagw on Thursday August 11, 2016 @05:09AM (#12266966)

Dear god yes. If everybody on your team just has a generic math/CS background and no one has a deep understanding of the domain you are working in, then you'll end up wasting so much time you might as well give up and go home.

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Re:“Joel Test” for Data Science by peatmoss on Thursday August 11, 2016 @02:22AM (#12266569)

I enthusiastically agree with this point, however, I think the test was more about "is the company doing right by data scientists?" than "these are skills competent data scientists should have."

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