Execs: “We know the business, we should do this”.

IT: Eh, data shows the opposite though...

Execs: We don’t need data, we just know.

IT: Dafaq!?

Oh hey, I just quit my company after this same conversation! Just that. I along with EVERY last hope the company had quit.

Now they're just a bunch of stupid people who are loosing money :D

I love execbashing... but data can be incomplete, misinterpreted or wrong.

This talk kind of represents my experience with hardcore data scientists... they often have their heads so far stuck up their datasets that they forget the sky is blue.

https://ted.com/talks/...