3. 3
Allies / Vision
lots of data
Permission
≠
Sponsorship
open-
+ minded
execs
=
Marketing!
formula: + lack of quants
4. 4
creating
infra-structure
Long-Term:
•Mastered data
•Governed data
•Marts/BI tools
•Parallel
•Productionalization
Near-Term:
•Change management plan
•Data sandbox
•64-bit PC; mucho RAM
•SQL
•R / Rstudio
•GitHub
•Task Scheduler
5. 5
> building
your team
T w i n
•business
intuition to
identify
problem
•identify
ideal data
set
•get data
•explore
dataset
•build model
•validate
model
•interpret
results
•create deck
•present
findings
6. 3rd
largest economy
world’s
•Citation ≠ Validation
•Data Brief = King
•Reproducibility is a must for trust
•Readiness assessment
•Research pipeline
•No memorization
is the
Team
Principles
7. is the world’s
•Whatever internal advocates request
•Slam dunk that CFO will see
•Self-funding
Finding Projects
No
Win
Situation
No
Credit
High
Stakes
Sweet
Spot
Impact of Screwing Up
Business Leader Enthusiasm
FIFO
&
The Trojan
Horse
8. …for humility in analysis…
Everything simple is false. Everything
complex is unusable. -Paul Valery
…for setbacks…
It only ends once. Anything that happens
before that is just progress. -Lost
…for perspective…
You are the average of the five people
you spend the most time with. -Jim Rohn
some musings…