How to Lead in Data Science

A field guide for the unique challenges of data science leadership, filled with transformative insights, personal experiences, and industry examples.
“Spot-on as a career resource! Captures what’s important to be successful as a data scientist.”
Eric Colson, Former Data Executive at Stitch Fix, Netflix
In How To Lead in Data Science you will learn:
• Best practices for leading projects while balancing complex trade-offs
• Specifying, prioritizing, and planning projects from vague requirements
• Navigating structural challenges in your organization
• Working through project failures with positivity and tenacity
• Growing your team with coaching, mentoring, and advising
• Crafting technology roadmaps and championing successful projects
• Driving diversity, inclusion, and belonging within teams
• Architecting a long-term business strategy and data roadmap as an executive
• Delivering a data-driven culture and structuring productive data science organizations
How to Lead in Data Science is full of techniques for leading data science at every seniority level—from heading up a single project to overseeing a whole company’s data strategy. Authors Jike Chong and Yue Cathy Chang share hard-won advice that they’ve developed building data teams for LinkedIn, Acorns, Yiren Digital, large asset-management firms, Fortune 50 companies, and more. You’ll find advice on plotting your long-term career advancement, as well as quick wins you can put into practice right away. Carefully crafted assessments and interview scenarios encourage introspection, reveal personal blind spots, and highlight development areas.
About the reader
For data science practitioners at all levels.
About the author
Dr. Jike Chong and Yue Cathy Chang build, lead, and grow high-performing data teams across industries in public and private companies, such as Acorns, LinkedIn, large asset-management firms, and Fortune 50 companies.