Tag: problem

  • Why is it (almost) impossible to set deadlines for data science projects?

    In many cases, attempts to set a deadline to a data science project result in a complete fiasco. Why is that? Why, in many software projects, managers can have a reasonable time estimate for the completion but in most data science projects they can’t? The key points to answer this question are complexity and, to a greater extent, missing information. By “complexity” I don’t (only) mean the computational complexity. By “missing information” I don’t mean dirty data. Let us take a look at these two factors, one by one.

    October 19, 2017 - 4 minute read -
    complexity data science problem project-management blog