Top 10 Challenges to Practicing Data Science at Work

A recent survey of over 16,000 data professionals showed that the most common challenges to data science included dirty data (36%), lack of data science talent (30%) and lack of management support (27%). Also, data professionals reported experiencing around three challenges in the previous year. A principal component analysis of the 20 challenges studied showed that challenges can be grouped into five categories. Data science is about finding useful insights and putting them to use. Data science, however, doesn't occur in a vacuum.