Do Good Analytics Leaders Have To Be Expert Data Scientists?

Data science is a highly multidisciplinary field. And to run data teams profitably, organisations need versatile leaders and managers. While analytics leaders’ job entails managing resources and a lot more, data scientists deal with technical aspects like coding, modelling, data collection, among others. We caught up with a few industry professionals to understand if analytics leaders should have an in-depth knowledge of data science. The short answer is: Yes and no. For the long answer, read on.  Yes And No There are several drawbacks to analytics leaders not being data scientists. Since data science engagements are hypothesis-driven experiments with different ways to arrive at the right solution, good knowledge of data science will enable the leader to guide the team i