Tackling Business Problems with Data Science

In the digital economy, data is the new gold. As automations, Machine Learning and AI-powered tools become more ubiquitous, the amount of value we can extract from data is only ever going to increase. Despite this, most people outside of IT are data illiterate, with little to no understanding of how it all works in practice. On top of this, data-related scandals have left a sour taste for a lot of people, making it harder to get them onboard with new data and analytics initiatives at work. 

In this episode, I sit down with Sandi Ganguly (Data Science Manager at Microsoft) to find out about what data science teams do, how the role has evolved since he began over 20 years ago and why data illiteracy is becoming a problem for business leaders everywhere.

Cited Sources 

Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century (Thomas H. Davenport and DJ Patil, 2012) https://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century  

Is Data Scientist Still the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century? (Thomas H. Davenport and DJ Patil, 2022) https://hbr.org/2022/07/is-data-scientist-still-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century