A field guide for the unique challenges of data science leadership, filled with transformative insights, personal experiences, and industry examples.

In How To Lead in Data Science you will learn:

Best practices for leading projects while balancing complex trade-offs
Specifying, prioritizing, and planning projects from vague requirements
Navigating structural challenges in your organization
Working through project failures with positivity and tenacity
Growing your team with coaching, mentoring, and advising
Crafting technology roadmaps and championing successful projects
Driving diversity, inclusion, and belonging within teams
Architecting a long-term business strategy and data roadmap as an executive
Delivering a data-driven culture and structuring productive data science organizations

How to Lead in Data Science is full of techniques for leading data science at every seniority level—from heading up a single project to overseeing a whole company's data strategy. Authors Jike Chong and Yue Cathy Chang share hard-won advice that they've developed building data teams for LinkedIn, Acorns, Yiren Digital, large asset-management firms, Fortune 50 companies, and more. You'll find advice on plotting your long-term career advancement, as well as quick wins you can put into practice right away. Carefully crafted assessments and interview scenarios encourage introspection, reveal personal blind spots, and highlight development areas.

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Lead your data science teams and projects to success! To make a consistent, meaningful impact as a data science leader, you must articulate technology roadmaps, plan effective project strategies, support diversity, and create a positive environment for professional growth. This book delivers the wisdom and practical skills you need to thrive as a data science leader at all levels, from team member to the C-suite.

about the book

How to Lead in Data Science shares unique leadership techniques from high-performance data teams. It’s filled with best practices for balancing project trade-offs and producing exceptional results, even when beginning with vague requirements or unclear expectations. You’ll find a clearly presented modern leadership framework based on current case studies, with insights reaching all the way to Aristotle and Confucius. As you read, you’ll build practical skills to grow and improve your team, your company’s data culture, and yourself.

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How to coach and mentor team members
Navigate an organization’s structural challenges
Secure commitments from other teams and partners
Stay current with the technology landscape
Advance your career

about the reader

For data science practitioners at all levels.

about the authors

Dr. Jike Chong and Yue Cathy Chang build, lead, and grow high-performing data teams across industries in public and private companies, such as Acorns, LinkedIn, large asset-management firms, and Fortune 50 companies.

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Spot-on as a career resource! Captures what’s important to be successful as a data scientist.

Eric Colson, Former Data Executive at Stitch Fix, Netflix

The first-of-its-kind book to discuss data science career development in a systematic way! Highly valuable and timely in a world that generates more and more data!”

Michael Li, VP of Data at Coinbase

A valuable reference filled with new and useful coaching and techniques. A must-have.

Jesse Bridgewater, VP Data Science at Brightline, formerly Livongo, Twitter, eBay

A great book providing frameworks and tools that help contemplate and address key problems faced by data science leaders.

Ron Kohavi, Best-selling Author, Former Executive at Airbnb, Microsoft, Amazon

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