2 STAKEHOLDERS
When we do something, other people normally have a stake in it. The stake they have can vary. It might be that they contribute to it, benefit from it, are affected by it or have some other interest in it. These people are stakeholders. This is true of data science projects, which can have a wide range of stakeholders, as we will see in this chapter.
It is fair to say that not all stakeholders are equal; not only are the reasons they have a stake different, but they also have different levels of interest in the project and different levels of ability to influence it. Let us imagine we work for a company that wants to understand whether the phones issued to employees are likely to develop a fault in the next six months. The person ...
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