The Data Scientist’s Code

The best data scientists understand that business analytics is about more than insight; it’s about directly driving real economic value. To drive completive differentiation, they manage by following the code:

• Think about competencies, not functions
• Drive outcomes, not insight
• Automate everything non-value-added
• Start flexible, become structured
• Eliminate bottlenecks
• Design your platform for use, not purity
• Always have a plan B
• Know what you are worth
• Own your intellectual property
• Minimize custom development
• Understand your data
• It’s better to have too much data than too little
• Keep things simple
• Function should dictate form
• Watch the dynamic not just the static

*Stubbs, Evan. Delivering Business Analytics Practical Guidelines for Best Practices.  New Jersey: Hon Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013