Council Post: Five Steps To Developing A Data Science Culture

You've developed a platform that's gaining significant customer traction and enabling you to collect vast amounts of transaction and user data. Word gets out about your software, you acquire more users and feature requests start rolling in. As you develop and deliver those new features, you engage more users and collect even more data! There's tremendous value in that data, but limited thinking may be limiting your ability to mine it for the insights you need to further improve your product or even develop new ones that better meet the needs of your user base. Perhaps you've only gotten as far as creating simple plots and histograms around events, fault detection and other simple rules-based alerting and reporting.