Hadooponomics

This week on the Hadooponomics podcast we welcomed Bob Hayes to the show. Bob not only runs his own consultancy focusing on the intersection of Big Data and customer experience, but he also serves as Chief Research Officer at Analytics Week as well. What I enjoyed most about Bob's perspective is that he holds a PhD in Industrial Organizational Pshychology and brings a lens of applying the human element to the very fact-based world of data. In this episode we start the discussion by breaking down findings from his primary research surveying 490 data scientists. We highlight key outcomes including the types of skills that data scientists typically do (and do not) have as well what it takes to build a data science team with maximum effectiveness. From there we navigate the conversation into a discussion around STEM education in America and finally we end the interview with talking about how Bob works with his own clients. We explore what Bob advises his clients to do when they start their own analytics initiativ