Building an Analytics Center of Excellence – A Practical Guide

For companies newly endeavoring in establishing capabilities in Data Science, it is important to keep a few crucial points in mind. Clean data, applicable models, and business intuition are all key to success. Do not remove any of them from the equation. Data Science is essentially about identifying and/or creating the cleanest possible data set, then searching mathematically for patterns within it. The goal should be to help business users make important data-driven decisions, prove or disprove their intuitions, predict the future, or optimize outcomes and processes.