Douetteau: Algorithmic optimization accounts for only 20% of a data project
Florian Douetteau · The Solitude of the Data Team Manager // Florian Douetteau, Dataiku (Hosted by FirstMark) · Apr 13, 2016 · at 8:41
Florian Douetteau, CEO of Dataiku, breaks down where time and value are actually spent when building real-world data science applications.
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“When you do have the data, and you do have the real business problem you want to solve, it's like you already did, like, half of the job, and so maybe you spend, like, more, 30 more percent actually working on the domain-specific or problem-specific features you want to, you need to build, And the optimization part of things, the algorithmic part of things is only maybe 20%.”
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