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Putting Data Science to Work
Daniel Francisco

2. Agenda
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Key Lessons4
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Organizing for Success
Data Science Project Types
Working with Partner Teams
Q&A and Discussion
Putting Data Science to Work

3. Organizing for Success

4. • Align tightly with partner
team
• Your roadmap is their
roadmap
• Reduces opportunity for
highly leverage-able results
Embedded
• Develop highly leverage-
able data products
• Work with partner teams
across company to roll out
• Risk of competing priorities,
integration overhead, etc.
Central Team
Team Structure

5. Data Science Project Types

6. Standalone Data Product –
InMaps

7. Standalone Data Product Integrated Onsite –
People You May Know

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Advantages
1. Ability to iterate quickly
2. Low to medium coordination
overhead
3. Easy to prioritize
Standalone Data Products
Disadvantages
1. Doesn’t allow for high leverage
2. Limited sets of use cases
3. Reduced opportunity to position
experience where it makes
sense

9. Highly Integrated Data Product –
Standardization
Quality
Evaluation
Enrich
Products with
Standardization
Taxonomy
Development
Skills
Companies
Educational
Institutions
Titles

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Advantages
1. Highly leverage-able
2. Expose in flows where most
value is added
Highly Integrated Data Products
Disadvantages
1. High co-ordination overhead
2. Prioritization risk
3. Blockers

11. Working with Partner Teams

12. The key to success is to involve partner teams
throughout the organization early and often.

13. Case Study: Standardization
Standardization is
leveraged throughout
LinkedIn. The value is
delivered by integrating
widely throughout our
product offerings.
 Get involved as other teams
are prioritizing work
 Gain deep understanding of
partner team roadmap and
success metrics
 BUT understand we're
uniquely positioned to be the
glue that brings other teams
together
 Be extremely persistent with
follow up
 Be very clear about ownership
Keys to Success

14. Standardization is
leveraged throughout
LinkedIn. The value is
delivered by integrating
widely throughout our
product offerings.
 Resources are tight everywhere. If
possible have a "tiger team" to
help the partner teams with
integration.
 Schedules change – and a hold
up in one part of the org can have
a cascading effect.
 Getting partners onboard can be
challenging if the marginal benefit
to them is small – you need to
persist if there is high leverage to
getting everyone onboard
 Need good understanding of
company priorities
Case Study: Standardization
Challenges

15. What about game changers?

16. Key Lessons

17. Key Lessons
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Identify where you can provide leverage4
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Understand your partner's success metrics &
priorities
Understand global company priorities
It's going to be hard work – and plans change
Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
Horizontal Projects

18. Most importantly if at all possible align
on incentives & goals (i.e. OKRs)

19. Q&A and Discussion

20. Find out more:
www.linkedin.com/in/dfrancisco
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