Metadata
- Author: Counting Stuff
- Full Title:: Don’t Expect Data to Change Everything Like Magic
- Category:: 🗞️Articles, Data Team Vision and Mission
- Finished date:: 2024-04-13
Highlights
how things were terrible before new data practices were implemented and then the massive changes in cost, profit, whatever, benefits that materialized after. Today, I’m not here to say those claims are lies, but that they are generally very rare, drawn out events – so rare that anyone working in data will honestly be lucky to participate in a handful over their entire careers. Expectations should be set accordingly. (View Highlight)
The chances are extremely low that tons of staff who have been working on a shared problem for years will have systematically missed something about how the business functions that a simple data process can pick up. Betting your career on doing “that one weird trick” is akin to those articles about how a physicist or economist has “discovered” some aspect of another field by applying a method from their home field and think they found a super novel result while the actual field has already known about that effect for decades. (View Highlight)
Unless you are in a position to push projects through and not busy doing front line analysis work all the time, it’s really hard to get velocity since all improvements gets interwoven with other work (View Highlight)
how many opportunities do you have to embark on an unbroken 2-4 year program in your career? (View Highlight)