The Care and Feeding of Data Scientists: Growing Careers

In the third and final installment of a conversation with Michelangelo D’Agostino, VP of Data Science and Engineering at Shoprunner, about growing and mentoring data scientists on your team. Some of our topics of conversation include how to institute hack time as a way to learn new things, what career growth looks like in data science, and how to institutionalize professional growth as part of a career ladder. As with the other episodes in this series, the topics we cover today are also covered in the O’Reilly report linked below. Relevant links: https://oreilly-ds-report.s3.amazonaws.com/Care_and_Feeding_of_Data_Scientists.pdf