Design Thinking for Data Scientists

I gave a talk on Design Thinking for Data Scientists at the O'Reilly Strata Conference in February 2015. The talk was pretty much orthogonal to every other talk at the conference. But it was well received, so I thought I'd share the transcript with you (or your can watch the video). I'd be delighted to hear your thoughts and experiences around this topic of increasing the business impact of Data Scientists working in industry. This talk is primarily directed towards Data Scientists, especially early career Data Scientists, but its also highly relevant to those who manage Data Scientists. I'm using the term Data Scientist in a very broad sense, to mean anyone who is using data plus statistics plus programming to do something new, something that's never been done before in their organization. I'm going to talk about how and why Intuit is transforming it's Data Scientists into Design Thinking leaders.