Building an Effective Data Science Practice: A Framework to Bootstrap and Manage a Successful Data Science Practice

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V. Raina, S. KrishnamurthyBuilding an Effective Data Science Practicehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7419-4_3

3. Monks vs. Cowboys: Data Science Cultures

Vineet Raina¹   and Srinath Krishnamurthy¹

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Pune, India

 

Having touched upon data science in the context of your business, it is now time to determine what culture of data science is best suited for your business. There are primarily two cultures of data science – the monastic culture (as defined and practiced by monks) and the wild-west culture (as iconized by cowboys).

In this chapter, we shall elaborate on how these two cultures practice data science and the business implications of the two cultures. ...