Communicating the Business Value of Data Science – Hacker Noon

You've created a model to predict which sales leads are likely to turn into convert into paying customers. The model is a true work of algorithmic beauty -- its your Mona Lisa, but better since it actually does something useful. You have tuned the parameters and cross-validated the results, which means the only thing left to do is present your work to the company's executives. "No problem" you think to yourself, you'll just talk them through a Confusion Matrix and ROC curve and wait for them to lavish you in riches and praise. Anyone who has tried to walk business stakeholders through predictive model performance knows that you are more likely to get strained expressions and blank stares than a standing ovation.