Introduction (15 minutes)
- Motivating the audience with prominent examples of data-driven products
- Overview of approaches to Data Science in consumer Web industry with B2C and B2B mindsets
- Understanding of audience background and learning objectives
- Product life cycle and the role of data
- Key challenges around scale: organizational perspective (how to create cross-functional leverage, how to quantify the impact of a product idea)
- Key challenges around scale: technological perspective (how to create the right technology that improve the speed and quality of product decisions)
- End-to-end walkthrough of a data-driven product
- Discuss 1 or 2 ideas from the audience and apply the framework to turn it into a data product
- Positioning Data Scientists for maximum impact in a product organization
- Preparing for Data Scientist roles: skill set versus mind set