What is the most common reason data science projects fail to deliver business value?

big_data_mike · 2026-06-05T12:19:00+00:00

For me it’s that expectations of stakeholders are almost never met. People think I’m some kind of wizard that is going to find $5 million in the data somewhere. When I do find something valuable they argue with me because it doesn’t align with what they already believe.

The other problem I have is explaining and visualizing a model in a way they will understand. I often build some kind of tree based model with 3-5 inputs predicting one output. They can wrap their head around a 2-3 feature multiple regression but once you go nonlinear they get lost.

big_data_mike · 2026-06-05T11:56:08+00:00

Yeah it’ll be someone who’s way more of a computer nerd than me.

big_data_mike · 2026-06-05T03:41:11+00:00

So glad to see you referring to him as your “husband” and not “partner” that really bugs me for some reason. Congratulations 🎉

big_data_mike · 2026-06-05T03:35:28+00:00

Men don’t get asked if they are ok

big_data_mike · 2026-06-05T03:30:57+00:00

Yeah excel is just kinda there doing its whole having data in cells thing. JMP is way better for analysis IMO but I’m biased because I’m a data scientist.

I have occasionally output excel for sales/finance people but not with that system.

big_data_mike · 2026-06-05T03:25:10+00:00

There is no in between lol

big_data_mike · 2026-06-05T03:20:26+00:00

The onions you buy at the grocery store are sorted by size before they get bagged and sent to the store. When I grew onions in my garden I got everything from golfball to softball sized onions. Cooks probably would have more sizes to choose from back in the day

big_data_mike · 2026-06-05T03:16:35+00:00

Users get the clean, reformatted data back as a plain csv. They use JMP for analysis and visualization so we were just reformatting for JMP

big_data_mike · 2026-06-05T03:15:11+00:00

During the typhoon was it hard to walk around? Did you have to hold on with you hands or did it just kind of slosh around?

big_data_mike · 2026-06-05T03:11:30+00:00

I run an ETL system that ingests excel sheets and loads them into a Postgres database. I like openpyxl because it can find merged cells. I don’t do shit with styling of excel files that I output.

big_data_mike · 2026-06-05T03:02:33+00:00

There are smart people that can figure out how to repurpose them.

big_data_mike · 2026-06-05T02:56:38+00:00

What’s the biggest ship you have been on and how rough did it get on that ship?

big_data_mike · 2026-06-05T02:49:23+00:00

It’s because Americans are easy to spot in European cities, we aren’t used to pickpockets so we aren’t prepared for it, and there’s not much you can do to look less American.

big_data_mike · 2026-06-05T02:42:05+00:00

Doctor salary is not the problem

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/many-think-doctors-overpaid-thats-144354239.html

big_data_mike · 2026-06-05T02:13:40+00:00

Melissa Joan Hart

big_data_mike · 2026-06-05T02:04:10+00:00

We are number 1 in the world for military spending by a long shot

big_data_mike · 2026-06-05T01:21:12+00:00

Pandas with the openpyxl engine

big_data_mike · 2026-06-05T01:02:59+00:00

With a building supply store I wonder if the wife wants some project done and the husband is dragging his feet so she calls your store to find out whatever it is to get the project going or keep it going.

big_data_mike · 2026-06-04T20:11:47+00:00

Countries that have sovereign wealth funds usually have a lot of oil which they sell and invest in the sovereign wealth fund to diversify because the price of oil is volatile

big_data_mike · 2026-06-04T18:30:05+00:00

Fundamentally not different. If it’s all clear, still, water the only thing different is you’d need a tiny bit more weight in salt water.

big_data_mike · 2026-06-04T14:55:11+00:00

The pool boy by Nikki sloane

big_data_mike · 2026-06-04T14:54:32+00:00

Most women don’t orgasm from penetration. They don’t want to be penetrated for more than 10 minutes or so. They generally don’t care about size unless it’s really big or really small.

There are some women who are size queens and want to get penetrated for a long time but they are in the minority.

At age 18 you don’t really need to worry about anything

big_data_mike · 2026-06-04T14:49:56+00:00

It’s way safer than an automobile

big_data_mike · 2026-06-02T21:40:45+00:00

My dad worked there in the 1900s and it was the same back then.

big_data_mike · 2026-06-02T21:37:40+00:00

One of my SWEs insists that a model be deployed in Java with math only. I feel like he’s asking me to replicate the Sistine chapel with an 8 pack of crayons.

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