Building an Effective Data Science Practice: A Framework to Bootstrap and Manage a Successful Data Science Practice

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V. Raina, S. KrishnamurthyBuilding an Effective Data Science Practicehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7419-4_22

22. Building and Structuring the Team

Vineet Raina¹   and Srinath Krishnamurthy¹

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Pune, India

 

In the previous chapter, we saw the various roles and skills that go into forming an interdisciplinary data science team. In this chapter, we shall look at a few typical team structures that are seen in practice and then cover some pointers around hiring data scientists, with a particular focus on the chief data scientist.

Typical Team Structures

In this section, we shall first look at the minimal team composition required to begin data science activities. ...