The importance of domain expertise in data science

Why is domain expertise crucial in data science? If you're doing analytics, it helps you understand what you're looking at so that you don't snooze past the insights. If you're doing machine learning, it helps you debug your system and constrain your solution to what's most effective and practical. If you're doing statistics... this video explains!

How does domain expertise help you on the job? Got any stories of disasters where data professionals messed up because they lacked it? Tell me in the comments!

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[davins]

in a job interview, the "head of ai and analytics" for a big oil and gas company in Italy after having said that domain expert is crucial, reply to me by saying that she "totally disagree"... if this is (was, hope for them) the boss... think of others...

[Anurag-Baveja]

Hi Cassie, congrats on the new adventure. Can I help you create and run written text based content for Data Scientific please. Can create, manage run Data Scientific blog

[Flylikea]

Yeah, tried that... actually gave me wrong input and way too many bruised egos. 🙃 Not that I disagree with the point made. At least, now, I know the people I should not be asking questions.