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Follow Priya, a data scientist at Drizzly, a startup under Uber, as she juggles between five meetings during the day. Priya highlights the importance of keeping all stakeholders informed to ensure that her models provide value with data. She attends several meetings with leadership and other data scientists to discuss where data science fits into the company’s goals and priorities and to explore cross-functional use cases. Priya spends the rest of her day working on a forecasting project, visualizing her model’s output, catching up on work, cleaning her house, and attending a Metallica concert.
In this section, we follow Priya, a data scientist at Drizzly, which is a startup under Uber. Priya is the only data scientist on the Strategic Partnerships side of the team, and she has five meetings on her agenda. Priya emphasizes that keeping stakeholders informed is essential to ensure that her models are answering business questions and providing value with data models. The first meeting is a stakeholder meeting with the Insight side of Priya's company, which informs stakeholders of what is going on, gains insight into what is needed, and how the organization is performing. Priya's second meeting is scrum, which is a daily stand-up intended to remove blockers.
In this section, the data scientist gives a tour of her house and prepares food before attending multiple meetings for her various data science projects. She has a meeting with the highest leadership to discuss where data science fits into the company’s goals and priorities. She also has a one-on-one meeting with another data scientist to discuss data geeky stuff and cross-functional use cases. Additionally, the data scientist works on a forecasting project and visualizes her model’s output before attending a company sink meeting where they discuss the company’s direction and revenue goals. The rest of her day involves catching up on work, cleaning her house, and attending a Metallica concert.
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