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Foobar8568 on Dec 31, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ditching Excel for Python in a legacy industry

And I have seen a board member not wanted anything but linear regression from his own data scientist team (If I remember well, they were like 5~ PHD or master in stats) because he couldn't understand anything. And that was in one of the largest organization in the world.

nojito on Dec 31, 2020 [–]

Data scientists are useless if they don’t have the right communication skills to empower decision makers.

This is why linear regression will always be king and people who know how to turn complex problems into linear problems are worth millions.

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