Don't Frustrate Your Data Scientists (If You Want Them to Stay)

As I speak with data scientists, especially those working in Global 1000 companies, many express concerns about their situation. In some sense, they're victims of their own success: Data scientists are producing models that are making substantial contributions to the business, and thus more and more models are being used in production applications. But as a result, data scientists face several challenges. The causes of both issues are very consistent across most organizations, and as such, lend themselves to straightforward solutions. This is good news for both data scientists and the organizations that they work for – provided that organizations act, and do so with some urgency.