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Data Engineering -> Data Science
Things you’ll need to forget to help you succeed
Ed Thewlis
CTO, The Data Shed
ed@thedatashed.co.uk
@edthewlis
Stuff I want to talk about:
• Shiny! Deep Learning!! When can I start?
• Forget everything* you know.
• Fear the Data Engineer turned Scientist!
*just kidding.
Shiny! Deep Learning!! When can I start?
AKA: What do Engineers think Data Scientists actually do?
DATA ENGINEERING DATA SCIENCE
Credit: https://selmandesign.com/qa-on-machine-learning/
DATA ENGINEERING DATA SCIENCE
Most businesses’ problems
aren’t technically complex.
Two things you will need to forget
Where we’re going,
we don’t need tickets…*
*or at least, not quite in the same way
Your job isn’t to build a model that predicts
subscription churn, your job is to actually reduce
subscription churn
Forget TDDForget TDD, until you’ve identified value
Things to learn
The Easy Bits
• Business Process modelling
• Value Chain modelling
The Hard Bits
• Influencing others
• Business acumen
• Strong communication skills
F33r The Data Engineer turned Scientist!
Build
Experiment
Publish
Analytical Pipeline
Evaluate Monitor
Build
Hypothesis/
Experiment Publish
Analytical Pipeline
Evaluate Monitor
DevelopSpike/Design Release
Engineering Process
Test Monitor
Time to Insight
How efficiently can you
generate the insight to a
key decision point
Time to Action
How efficiently can the
business act on your
insight
Time to Value
Over what horizon are
you able to measure
your impact
Be realistic! Fix the problems in your business that aren’t
technically challenging
Forget the board! Think about the right and left – the
problem, and the change you’re going to effect in your
organisation
Only write tests when you’ve proven value
Data Scientists - embrace the Data Engineers. They’ll help you
automate the crap out of everything
Any questions?

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