There's a lot of pressure in the modern workplace to be data driven, but you don't have to try too hard to find a salty data scientist who can tell you a story (or two or three) about a time that "product intuition" or "strategic bets" were used to justify a decision instead.
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Replying to @imightbemary
Yeah, this is something that my perspective has shifted about since joining industry. I've started to frame the goal as being "data-informed" rather than data-driven. The most important goals are the hardest to quantitatively operationalize, +
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Replying to @lucienserapio @imightbemary
qualitative understanding is essential for designing data acquisition and interpreting the result. The hazards of metrics is something I'm still pondering over too e.g.
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For sure. While anyone can incorporate data into their decisions, there still is expertise involved in designing constructive metrics. Bad metrics come from people not using data intentionally--because they think they have to rather than for a considered purpose.
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