Essential data science skills that no one talks about - KDnuggets

The top results are long lists of technical terms, named hard skills. Python, algebra, statistics, and SQL are some of the most popular ones. Later, there come soft skills -- communication, business acumen, team player, etc. Let's pretend that you are a super-human possessing all the above abilities. You code from the age of five, you are a Kaggle grandmaster and your conference papers are guaranteed to get a best-paper award. There is still a very high chance that your projects struggle to reach maturity and become full-fledged commercial products. Recent studies estimate that more than 85% of data science projects fail to reach production. The studies provide numerous reasons for the failures. And I have not seen the so-called essential skills mentioned even once as a potential reason.