How to Make Data Science Not Functionally Useless

You can buy the best hardware in the world, and hire the best mathematicians. You can write brilliant machine learning algorithms. However: if you do not have a way to produce information that is relevant to your organization and successfully communicate it to them, your entire data science department is the functional equivalent of a paperweight that costs more than raw plutonium.

So let’s take a minute to talk about organizational structure, information flows, hiring, training, and data’s social signal-to-noise-ratio.