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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Building a Data Science Team by Johns Hopkins University

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About the Course

Data science is a team sport. As a data science executive it is your job to recruit, organize, and manage the team to success. In this one-week course, we will cover how you can find the right people to fill out your data science team, how to organize them to give them the best chance to feel empowered and successful, and how to manage your team as it grows. This is a focused course designed to rapidly get you up to speed on the process of building and managing a data science team. Our goal was to make this as convenient as possible for you without sacrificing any essential content. We've left the technical information aside so that you can focus on managing your team and moving it forward. After completing this course you will know. 1. The different roles in the data science team including data scientist and data engineer 2. How the data science team relates to other teams in an organization 3. What are the expected qualifications of different data science team members 4. Relevant questions for interviewing data scientists 5. How to manage the onboarding process for the team 6. How to guide data science teams to success 7. How to encourage and empower data science teams Commitment: 1 week of study, 4-6 hours Course cover image by JaredZammit. Creative Commons BY-SA. https://flic.kr/p/5vuWZz...
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Top reviews

NS

Dec 14, 2017

This course was an exceptional experience where it introduces me to building a data science team, its challenges, nuances and also what kind of approach to take while building and sustaining the team.

SM

Jan 14, 2021

Very well organized. Might consider adding couple of additional speakers with with more executive and management level experience with organizations that successfully implemented Data Science.

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By Daniel D

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Oct 22, 2018

As having experience managing researcher the subject is not completely new, so it can seems long.

By Paman G

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Nov 10, 2015

Good interesting material but the quizzes were badly designed and did not test concepts well.

By Peter L

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Jul 25, 2018

Added value is highly dependent of your experience with data analysis or data engeneering

By Grant C

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Sep 29, 2016

There could be more work in the assignments in this course. The Quizzes are very simple.

By Shafeeq I

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Jan 8, 2019

Good on understanding roles each has to play. but very lengthy to explain those.

By Chen S

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Sep 26, 2015

Great idea and syllabus.

The videos are too short and missing some explanations.

By Narek V

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Feb 6, 2016

Probably, I wouldn't have a course just about how to hire/build a data team.

By Thomas N

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Jan 3, 2017

needed more depth, which still could have been achieved in a 1-week format

By Saurabh G

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Aug 13, 2019

A little dense on theory. Also a bit dated for certain parts I would say.

By Ricardo O

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Jan 5, 2016

The courses in the specialization are - in my opinion, excessively short.

By Gregory M S

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Sep 12, 2019

Too simple. Would have preferred more rigor and more material

By Djana R

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Jun 24, 2018

Recommended for managers of IT companies.

By Peter P

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Apr 16, 2016

Interesting, but content is a bit limited

By Deepak G

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Jun 28, 2016

Very short. Quality of the course is OK.

By Joey S

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Feb 27, 2018

The content is OK, but not exciting.

By manuel s g

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Jan 9, 2022

This course seems to me too basic

By Angel S

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Jan 11, 2016

Quite useful

By Scott K

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Oct 29, 2018

The content of this course was fine, but the quizzes were very poorly worded. The multiple choice answers were ambiguous and vague, making me spend FAR more time fretting on the interpretation of the phrase "assess a skill used in practice" than on recalling the truth of the course and applying that clearly to an answer. Particularly the Management Strategies and Assembling a Team quizzes were the worst of the set. If the article referenced in the question mentions "gaming the system" TWICE in the text, and that's provided as a possible answer, but that answer is wrong, then the quiz itself fails to accomplish the goal.

By Krijn v B

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Nov 8, 2016

The explanation of roles is clear. So are other remarkt / piffalls / do's and don'ts. But those are valid for all specialist functions

Couple of remarks:

(1) The target audience seems to be the data manager, rather than any executive (C/ C-1 level) of function (HR) dealing with building a data science team.

(2) With regard to management and organizing, I missed the "academic" level (organisational design) nor did it help in setting up data science (where / how to start ?).

By Tony M

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Nov 3, 2016

I'm not sure if the material presented in this course warranted a whole separate course (even if it only was one week). It probably could have been inserted in various segments of a larger data science specialization throughout the classes. Most of the topics discussed should be common knowledge to a mid-level manager of data science or even strategic marketing in general.

By Randhir N

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Dec 22, 2017

Many things were unwanted ....for example Assembling team or On-boarding - are common for all the teams. There was nothing new from Data Science point of view. If you replace the word 'Data Science' by 'Any Project' then also the above mentioned module will have same meaning. Hence I did not like this module.

Thanks

Randhir

By Marek N

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Sep 7, 2016

In my opinion this course does not fit to the specialization well. Not sure how big proportion of the specialization students have a background different from data science and are going to manage the data science team.

By Enrique G

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Jul 29, 2020

Good lecturer, but the content is not that insightful. Lots of common-sense recommendations, not so many real life insights. Additionally multiple issues with linked resources and a quiz that is not well defined.

By Jonás G

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Sep 20, 2017

Pretty disappointing, one would expect something more useful and closer to data science, rather than a bunch of void general advises on very basic leadership strategies.

By Nikhil S

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Mar 2, 2018

The course could have been more structured than it is; without excessive overlap of content between different parts, the course could have been more succinct.