The Importance of Understanding Your Business Users | Data Science Hangout Highlights
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It's really easy to go down those rabbit holes. What I've found works best for me and my team members that I've had do things is make sure that you are constantly working with business so that you're not going too far down a rabbit hole that they're like, I don't care about that. That doesn't affect me at all. Where if I can get the business partners feeling like it's their project and they're right beside you like helping through it, that decreases the rabbit holes.
It's still easy, but I think we all have a tendency to be like, well, that's an interesting problem. Let's go look at it. But if you have that consistent relationship with the business person where you are truly working together and it's not just, okay, data scientist, go do your thing and then come back when you're done. That's when I think the rabbit hole problem gets bad. And there's a tendency for, I think both sides to be like, well, I'm busy in the business. So you just come back to me later. And that as the data scientist, I think you just cannot, you can't go for that. Like I require if I'm doing work with you or for you, you have to be my partner.
Like I require if I'm doing work with you or for you, you have to be my partner.
Otherwise it's not going to succeed. But I have noticed people don't spend enough time creating that relationship and enforcing that relationship.
