>The worst cases I have seen is when executives take a problem and ask data scientists to "do some of that data science" on the problem...high-level pie in the sky stuff that works well in pitch meetings and client meetings...
I'm been in various external and internal facing Data Science roles for 8+ years and this is spot on. IME it's the #1 reason Data Science projects "fail." If you can replace "do some of that data science" with "do some of that black magic" that probably means nobody actually checked to make sure the data and problem made sense in the first place. But somebody somewhere already committed to it, so the Data Science team has to deliver it.
I'm been in various external and internal facing Data Science roles for 8+ years and this is spot on. IME it's the #1 reason Data Science projects "fail." If you can replace "do some of that data science" with "do some of that black magic" that probably means nobody actually checked to make sure the data and problem made sense in the first place. But somebody somewhere already committed to it, so the Data Science team has to deliver it.