Essential Problem Solving Skills for Data Scientists | Online

About this event

Tentative Schedule: 6:30pm: Pizza + Beer networking 7:00pm: TBD with Data Scientist from Dataiku 7:30pm: Growing Data Science Talent through Structured Problem Solving with Jolene Mork, Senior Data Scientist at Macy's

Talk Abstracts:

What makes a data science team more than a collection of smart individuals feeding data through algorithms? At Macy's, the core skills that unite the data science team are a knack for structured problem solving—taking a vague business ask, breaking it down to understand the underlying question, and then abstracting the question to components solvable with math—and structured communication, which allows us to communicate and effect change in our organization. This talk will focus on a specific business case drawn from pricing to illustrate the transformation of a vague business ask into a solvable data science problem, and discuss how it reflects the structured problem solving philosophy that underlies the work of the data science team at Macy's.

Prereqs & Preparation

None!