How I Met Your Data Science Team: A Tale of Effective Communication
Deriving actionable insights from data requires expertise in both data science as well as the specific application domain. This need for domain-specific knowledge often necessitates engaging an interdisciplinary team rather than an individual for most realistic data science problems in domains such as finance, biology, or drug discovery. This, in turn, requires effective collaboration between team members. This paper seeks to understand common themes in how such multi-disciplinary teams communicate to accomplish their analytical goals. We conduct an interview study with 15 professional data scientists working in small to large organizations in fields ranging from bioinformatics to accounting. Communication between individuals in these teams depends on their team structure and expertise. Data scientists specifically adapt their tools to communicate with team members with different types of domain knowledge. We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches for supporting communication in multi-disciplinary environments.
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14:00 - 15:15 | Session on Data Science and Data AnalyticsResearch Papers at Auditorium Chair(s): Ian Drosos Microsoft Research | ||
14:00 30mTalk | Detangler: Helping Data Scientists Explore, Understand, and Debug Data Wrangling Pipelines Research Papers A: Nischal Shrestha , A: Bhavya Chopra Microsoft, A: Austin Z. Henley Microsoft, A: Chris Parnin North Carolina State University | ||
14:30 30mTalk | How I Met Your Data Science Team: A Tale of Effective Communication Research Papers A: Aayushi Roy University of Maryland, College Park, A: Deepthi Raghunandan , A: Niklas Elmqvist University of Maryland, College Park, A: Leilani Battle | ||
15:00 15mTalk | WhatsNext: Guidance-enriched Exploratory Data Analysis with Interactive, Low-Code Notebooks Research Papers A: Chen Chen , A: Jane Hoffswell , A: Shunan Guo , A: Ryan Rossi , A: Yeuk-Yin Chan , A: Fan Du , A: Eunyee Koh , A: Zhicheng Liu |