Doshi: Data science teams should only handle 10% of business questions
Suhail Doshi · a16z Podcast | Data, Insight, and the Customer Experience · Jan 2, 2019 · at 15:27
Suhail Doshi, founder of analytics platform Mixpanel, outlines how companies should divide routine analytics from specialized data science problems.
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“90% of a business's questions are pretty reasonably easy to get to. It's just the data and the analysis, and there's some edge cases that you have to kind of figure out. That part's annoying and hard, but 90% of your questions are pretty easy. There's this 10% of really important, sophisticated questions that a business needs to answer, and the data science team is great for answering those extremely hard questions that really no tool can really answer for them.”
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