1.
LEAN DATA SCIENCE
Noelle Sio Saldana
@noellesio
February 2017

2.
DATA SCIENCE IS
AWESOME
Data Science is awesome!

3.
DATA SCIENCE
CAN MAKE ___ BETTER
Data Science is awesome!

4.
...BUT IT’S A LOT
OF WORK

5.
ISN’T THERE A BETTER
WAY TO DO THIS?
(We are Data Scientists, after all.)

6.
Is Data Science more
like R&D or software?

7.
R&D
“I want to test
this hypothesis”
Success is
measured by
model fit

8.
SOFTWARE
“I want to change
the way people act”
Success is
measured by
impact

9.
Borrowing Innovative
Practices

10.
http://theleanstartup.com/

11.
Just ship it
already
Minimum Viable Models

12.
Do you have an ‘Alpha Nerd’ problem?

13.
Pair Programming works for
Data Scientists, too.

14.
15
Let’s Communicate
More
(Or why we have
scrums and
retrospectives)

15.
Empathy
over
elitism

16.
Some takeaways
1) Problems can have simpler solutions
2) More communication is a good thing
3) We’re all in this together

17.
THANK YOU