The Decision Maker's Handbook to Data Science: A Guide for Non-Technical Executives, Managers, and Founders

Appendix: Tools for Data Science

The Data Strategy Canvas

The data strategy canvas is a tool that is used in order to structure the implementation of a data science within a company. You will find this canvas especially useful if you are implementing data science for the first time within your company.

The canvas is covering the most important topics that you have read in this book:

1. 1)

   Challenge—Here you have to specify the exact problem you are trying to solve. Don’t forget to pose the problem as a question. This forces you to make the problem more concrete and will also help the data scientist better understand what it is that you are trying to do.

    
2. 2)

   Data sources—Where are you getting your data from?

    
3. 3)

   Appropriateness, nature, time, and cost—These ...