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#159 Part 2- How do we get data scientists going in 8 hours with Nitish Mathew Global Head of Data Engineering at Afterpay

Data Futurology - Leadership And Strategy in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science

English - June 22, 2021 20:00 - 30 minutes - 69.3 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratings
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Previous Episode: #158 Part 1- How do we get data scientists going in 8 hours with Nitish Mathew Global Head of Data Engineering at Afterpay
Next Episode: #160 Part 1 - Data Strategy Skills - The Ultimate Uplevel for Business-focused Data Professionals, with Lillian Pierson

In part 2 of this episode, Nitish shares his thoughts on how to ensure that the data scientists expertise are well utilized. He says their key metric last year for the entire team was to hit exactly one number - 100 active users for their data platform with only 50 data scientists! He also says organizations should focus on enabling self service across the business.


Nitish talks about the data support channel at Afterpay which allows for anyone to ask questions about the data and the data platform. He says find the people naturally drawn to the data and support them with assistance, training and coaching.


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