How to Strengthen Your Company’s Data Science Program
Data Dialogues
English - September 23, 2021 10:00 - 33 minutes - 26.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsMarketing Business data insights data insights analytics marketing personalization equifax american express sofi peoples bank Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This episode focuses on how companies can collaborate with universities to solve business problems and strengthen their own data science programs. Jeff Dugger, Principal Data Scientist at Equifax & University Research Director, interviews Jennifer Priestley, Professor of Statistics and Data Science at Kennesaw State University, about how university’s structure their data science programs -- and how they rely on the private sector to stay relevant.
Skip ahead to these highlights:
1:00 - About Kennesaw State University’s School of Data Science and Analytics
3:25 - The challenges Jennifer faced when launching one of the first university data science programs
6:00 - How to bring different backgrounds together for an effective data science program
11:00 - How data science programs differ from so-called “spoke” programs
17:05 - It’s all about adding value to the organization
18:20 - Understanding model results
21:03 - The real-time feedback loop with the private sector
26:33 - The need for communications skills - how do you tell the story of your data?
28:30 - Top 3 takeaways for companies to build and strengthen their data science programs