Hacker Noon June 29, 2020
While HBR declared “Data Scientist” the sexiest job of the 21st century, let’s admit that the prevailing view is that it’s a geeky, highly-technical field.
Psychologists know that humans are categorical—we use categories to understand the world more easily—and this tendency to categorize has caused us to separate “data scientists” and “business-people.”
For example, aspiring data scientists often imagine their work to involve scripting in Jupyter Notebooks, creating isolated analyses, and building models, rather than seeing their work as fully interdependent with the rest of the organization.
By adopting a more business-focused mindset, data scientists can increase their odds of being promoted, and more importantly, add more value to their organizations.
Similarly, business-oriented professionals can adopt a more data-driven mindset,...
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