In an upcoming article by Bryson Koehler, executive vice president, CIO and CTO of The Weather Company, he talks about how to identify the best person in your company to treat data science as an art.
"Data science absolutely is an art. It should be called data art, actually, not data science. What do you need to be a data scientist? Obviously, you need some amazing analytical math skills and some computer science background so you can write an R language query. But you have to be an investigator as well, with an innate sense of curiosity. You don't make a data scientist just by taking an engineer and saying, 'Hey, go write some queries.' Most engineers would much prefer to hear, 'Here are the requirements. Go execute against them.' And that doesn't always instill curiosity."
Read, "Do CIOs need data scientists?" by Chris Carroll.
Bryson Koehler is executive vice president and CIO of The Weather Company. He is responsible for setting the strategic vision, financial planning, technical operations, direction and execution of strategic technology initiatives for the company. In the past, Bryson has worked as an operating partner in private equity and as SVP of global revenue and guest technology at InterContinental Hotels Group.
