Database Reference
In-Depth Information
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Data Engineer and Database Administrator
(DBA) typically need to
share the code from the analytical project and create technical documents
that describe how to implement the code.
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Data Scientists
need to share the code and explain the model to their
peers, managers, and other stakeholders.
Although these seven roles represent many interests within a project, these
interests usually overlap, and most of them can be met with four main deliverables:
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Presentation for Project Sponsors
contains high-level takeaways for
executive-level stakeholders, with a few key messages to aid their
decision-making process. Focus on clean, easy visuals for the presenter to
explain and for the viewer to grasp.
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Presentation for Analysts
, which describes changes to business
processes and reports. Data scientists reading this presentation are
comfortable with technical graphs (such as Receiver Operating
Characteristic [ROC] curves, density plots, and histograms) and will be
interested in the details.
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Code
for technical people, such as engineers and others managing the
production environment
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Technical specifications
for implementing the code
As a rule, the more executive the audience, the more succinct the presentation
needs to be for project sponsors. Ensure that the presentation gets to the point
quickly and frames the results in terms of value to the sponsor's organization.
When presenting to other audiences with more quantitative backgrounds, focus
more time on the methodology and findings. In these instances, the team can
be more expansive in describing the outcomes, methodology, and analytical
experiments with a peer group. This audience will be more interested in the
techniques, especially if the team developed a new way of processing or analyzing
data that can be reused in the future or applied to similar problems. In addition,
use imagery or data visualization when possible. Although it may take more time
to develop imagery, pictures are more appealing, easier to remember, and more
effective to deliver key messages than long lists of bullets.
