This presentation is created during Data Analytics Internship under Prof. Sameer Mathur, IIM Lucknow.

1. How to Start Thinking Likea Data
Scientist
By Thomas C. Redman

2. How to start?
Be open minded and
startwith paper, pencil
and calculator

3. What willhappen?
• Become data literate
• Open eyes to millions of
smalldata opportunities
and make us work
efficientlywith data
scientistsand analytics

5. How to think?
• Form a question on what
bothers you
• Thinkabout the data that can
answer the question
• Develop a plan for creating the
answer
• Write down allthe relevant
definition and your protocol for
collecting the data

6. How to describe?
• Identify the gaps in data
collection
• Modify your definition and
protocol asyou go along
• Start drawing pictures by hand
to describe your variable of
interest

7. How to communicate?
• Use availabletools to draw
good pictures to both
understand the data and
communicate main points to
others
• Return to the question thatyou
started with and develop
summary statistics

8. How to answer?
• Answer the so what question
• Understand variation for deeper
insightsand novel ideas of
improvement for the overall
problem
• Pose the next group of
questions – 2 or 3 at most to
keep the focus narrow

9. Relevance to Indian Managers

10. Conduct basic analyses
• Identify the employee
performance
• Collect data of possible causes
for low performance
• Develop plans to resolve
efficiently
• Implement to increase
productivity

11. Interpret complex analyses
• Identify the market trends
• Collect data on customer needs
• Develop plansto target the
demanding service
• Implement required business
process

12. Interact with DataScientist
• Identify skills of talented data
scientist
• Collect data on significanttasks
to allocate
• Develop potential to
understand their analysis
• Implement solutions to elevate
business model