Building a Data Science Team
Johns Hopkins University · View on Coursera ↗
Taught by Jeff Leek, PhD, Brian Caffo, PhD, Roger D. Peng, PhD
Data ScienceBusiness
About the course
Data science is a team sport. As a data science executive it is your job to recruit, organize, and manage the team to success. In this one-week course, we will cover how you can find the right people to fill out your data science team, how to organize them to give them the best chance to feel empowered and successful, and how to manage your team as it grows. This is a focused course designed to rapidly get you up to speed on the process of building and managing a data science team. Our goal wa
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