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Why Big Data Has To Make Sense To People

Matt Reaney / 2 min read.
April 7, 2017
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You might have three PhDs and a brain the size of a football, but if you can’t explain things in simple language to others, it will be a struggle to maximise your potential impact on the world. Of course, there are many notable exceptions of academically brilliant individuals who have transformed the world, but people such as Einstein, Newton, Hawking, et al., often developed their theories in the confines of their labs and studies.

Data Science professionals, clever as they may be, have no choice but to work extremely closely with their non-scientifically-minded colleagues. I’d just like to say that intelligence is important in business, but it is far from the only success factor. A practical focus on getting things done and an ability to get on with other people are two things that every great leader has, and what you might call EQ is sometimes more important than IQ.

So, for the data gurus to make a difference, it is essential that they learn to translate the data into something that everyone would appreciate. This might involve dazzling visualisation and colourful graphics, and it might even involve the odd bit of humour to help the points to sink in.

If the data is not understood, it won’t be able to effect change.

If the Data Science teams can’t communicate its essence in a simple way, it will stay as a complicated but brilliant footnote in the company‘s data archive.

Too many under-communicated projects like this and the effectiveness of Big Data & Data Science will start to be called into question. It has to make a difference. It has to get down and dirty and no matter how deep the worm-hole goes, the Data Scientists have a duty to share the obvious insights that reside nearer the surface. Once the obvious wins have been sufficiently digested, that is the time to maybe explore things at a deeper level.


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Explaining complicated data in a simple way is the art form of the Data Scientist, and it is one of the key questions that we ask when interviewing Data Scientists at Big Cloud.

How do you explain your findings to your non-analytical colleagues?

The moment that anyone hesitates to think is the moment I know they’ll be the one to sit at their desk with their headphones on and get stuck in. But, thinking that the business only needs their brain to crunch the numbers, they don’t see the relevance in trying to explain the numbers to people. This can be limiting to their careers.

On the other hand, there are many candidates who roll their eyes and launch into a monologue about the challenges involved. I’m not saying that it is easy, but the very best Big Data professionals (whatever their role) will have these conversations on a regular basis.

If data can’t be explained to normal people in a normal way, it is as good as useless.

Categories: Big Data
Tags: Big Data, big data scientist, business, communication, data science, data scientist, skills

About Matt Reaney

Matt Reaney is the founder of Big Cloud. Global recruiters in Data Science, Machine Learning and AI.

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