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Re:Ways Data Projects Fail by teej on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @06:19PM (#12859924)
I think this is great, but point #4 is way off the mark. It's pretentious and it's gatekeeping. It's not true that a strong analytics leader as you've described is incapable of understanding selection bias, measurement bias, Simpson's paradox, and statistical significance. I would posit that a great analytics leader needs to understand all of those. It's not true that only a "data scientist" with a bunch of fancy programming and modeling experience is the only one capable of understanding bias.

Also you misspelled "breathe". As in "live and breathe".

Re:Ways Data Projects Fail by martingoodson on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @06:28PM (#12859978)
Thanks - appreciate the comment. I guess the point is that anyone who fully understands these things is a 'scientist', regardless of job title.