This document outlines roles and processes for building an effective data science team. It recommends that teams include people with skills in machine learning, data engineering, analytics, mathematics, and visualization. The document describes the CRISP-DM process for data science projects and a lambda architecture for continuous analysis of big data using a pipeline of jobs, messaging queues, and data processing applications. It emphasizes building cross-disciplinary teams that can work together to ask important questions and create useful data products.