Omar
Do you work in groups or by yourself?
#data scientist #it #technology
18 answers
Krishna Chaitanya Tumuluru
Krishna Chaitanya’s Answer
Harish Tamboli
Harish’s Answer
IT Industry as a whole always works as a Team. Nowadays we also have tools that help work in a more Hybrid manner where you discuss as a team how you want to approach a solution and then everyone has their part where they just go in one corner and continue to work towards completion of their part and then again you gather around as a team and put things together to see how the final solution looks like.
Hope this helps.
Bingxin Li
Bingxin’s Answer
I work in teams. In a team, everyone has its strength. Within a team work, you can build something bigger with the help of other team members.
Monica Rodriguez
Monica’s Answer
Abbas Abidi
Abbas’s Answer
Hardly anyone works by oneself these days and the individual work done is part of a bigger team goal. Particularly in the area of technology, it is possible for individuals to work remotely from their home or from a small office where none of their colleagues may be colocated with them. But with help of collaboration technologies, individuals and teams are able to operate as if they are physically together.
In my case, majority of my team is not in the same office/city as me, with a few in other countries.
Prem Shankar Pandey
Prem Shankar’s Answer
I work in the team's . When you work separately you only learn whatever you have learned from your books. Whereas if you work in team you learn many things from your colleagues and there mistakes so in this way you can avoid any possible mistakes in future....
Priya Mandalika
Priya’s Answer
C Scyphers
C’s Answer
* Data Engineering to get the data from the source systems and cleaned up into a useable state
* Data Scientists to perform the heavy mathematical lifting
* Data Analytics to focus the answers on business oriented solutions
* Business users to provide the feedback on the provide results and/or provide requirements
* Platform administrators to keep the (very large, very complex) systems up and running
Aside from the individual roles, it's better to work in teams as it helps to keep the creep of individual biases into the data models. Having team members with which you can discuss your approaches will help refine process and produce better results.
Jennifer Howard
Jennifer’s Answer
Hi, Omar! It depends on the project, but nearly all projects have components of both self work and group work. I meet with my team regularly to determine what their needs are and what I can do for them. We often break into smaller teams (or groups) to work on projects. Everyone is responsible for part of the job. The analysis and data stuff is usually on my own, but I am responsible for making sure it meets everyone’s needs and ideals for goals that should be met.
Shirley Zhang
Shirley’s Answer
Sangameshwar Adaka
Sangameshwar’s Answer
In teams, there is collaboration, exchange of information, learning/correcting mistakes, better ways to do things & diverse approach for a problem.
Thulasinathan P
Thulasinathan’s Answer
1. Dependence
2. Independent
3. Interdependence
Stages [1] and [2] are limited by what they can get or deliver, however [3] is the stage where the society and individual benefit the maximum.
The above applies to the professional life as well, with the help or influence of other success is difficult to achieve.
I suggest please read the Book - 7 HAbits of HIghly Effective People by Stephen Covey
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Corley Efurd
Corley’s Answer
The answer is both for me, but my case is a little different as I work as a Senior Network Engineer for a Multi-national and am based out of Tokyo, Japan. I typically have to sync with groups early in the morning and work on my own throughout the day until the U.S. team's start rolling back on shift.
I think most teams now days are quite virtualized, so understanding how to use Collaboration tools like WebEx or Slack will help you work better with your teams.
Sheila Jordan
Sheila’s Answer
I agree with the comments already mentioned. . . I'd like to add a different perspective by focusing on the tools that we use at my company to help us work effectively and efficiently. Some of those tools that we use for collaboration and productivity include:
* WebEx (meetings)
* OneNote (to archive your projects into a notebook format)
* OneDrive (we share and edit files across multiple web platforms)
* Telepresence (for face-to-face interaction. Although you can do this via WebEx on video)
* Internal websites (tSpace, Wiki, SharePoint), Q messenger
I wish you much success on your journey. Best of luck to you!
~ Sheila
Rebecca Day
Rebecca’s Answer
HI Omar! I work in groups and by myself when working on data projects. I am currently working on a project for AT&T to solve a data problem and provide recomendations for leadership to make good decisions in rationalizing our technology stack for the future. So, I have a formal group (scrum team) that I work with to make progress with the project and collectively pull the data in so we can conduct analysis. But, too I work on my own on the side to research data sources and effiencent methods in using the data.
So a little bit of both in my world.
Here is a great article that gives more insight to data science and how they work with teams. Check out the Some Data Science Teams section. https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/04/why-data-scientists-need-work-groups.html
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Victor Hirakawa
Victor’s Answer
hi Omar!,
in Teams, today is pretty hard to do everything yourself alone, you need to rely on others to complete your job, there are so many areas in the IT field that is not practical to know everything and try to do everything, I will never be able to complete all my tasks alone. Still there are some small tasks that I can complete by myself but if you want to make bigger impact in your company you will need to work with others and be collaborative.
Bhabani Devi
Bhabani’s Answer
I feel more motivated when I work with a group. I enjoy having other people around to bounce ideas off of. I find that one person can say something that jogs your mind and prompts you to come up with a completely new creative thought or idea. I enjoy that kind of experience. Plus, I feel that everyone has something different to contribute to an effort because we all come from such diverse backgrounds.
