The future of data science teams, integrating AI into data science workflows, building data apps for stakeholders - Barry McCardel - The Data Scientist Show #078

Barry McCardel is the cofounder and CEO of Hex(free trial: hex.tech/dsshow), a collaborative data workspace. Their customers include FiveTran, Notion, and Anthropic. We talked about what does the future of data team look like, how to tackle challenges of data team collaborations, and how to leverage AI in data science’s workflow.

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(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:01:25) Is AI replacing data scientists?

(00:06:08) Are data science teams getting smaller?

(00:09:54) What is Hex?

(00:11:24) How to communicate with stakeholders

(00:24:29) Should data scientists be full stack?

(00:31:23) How data team measure ROI

(00:33:35) Quantitative vs qualitative analysis

(00:35:33) When you shouldn't use data? Data vs product intuition

(00:41:39) How to hire your first data team?

(00:48:59) Is the modern data stack dead?

(00:53:55) GenAI in data science workflows

(00:59:03) Future of data scientist

(01:02:30) New features in Hex