Hi folks! \u00a0Ah June\u2026 it’s getting warmer, and Spring is wrapping up. \u00a0Looking forward to some summer vacation.<\/p>\n
I wanted to take a second to pause and reflect on a conversation that I had recently. By all accounts, I’m a data nerd, an analytics nerd, a map nerd, and a geek too. \u00a0But at the same time, I think of myself as someone who is very pragmatic (80\/20) and tries to get the best answer with the right level of effort (not necessarily the least).<\/p>\n
However I recently was on a global call, where some people were talking about data analytics, and how to (and I paraphrase) infuse the work with more analytics. \u00a0Now, I’m the first to promote a facts based approach, and a hypothesis based approach to solving business problems. \u00a0However sometimes, the “science” only gets you part of the way, and common sense can get you the rest of way. I am not advocate no quants and all common sense (or vice versa), but am suggesting that we have to have a very balanced approach, and always ensure that we know when one needs to take over.<\/p>\n
One of the outcomes that I recently came across in a project situation was specifically that this focus on pure facts, pure analytics, pure mathematical determinism lead to a sub-optimal solution as the analyst focused so much on solving one problem that they fully missed the overall client problem (i.e. local optimization with no global optimization).<\/p>\n
It may be just the current pendulum swing, but it seems that this 100% quant based approach can lead to less than desirable results. \u00a0What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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