Hi ,
"It's not the destination, it's the journey" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Except, the destination does matter. In fact, for your end user, it's probably far more important than your journey.
When you order something delivered to your door, be it pizza or the latest best-selling novel from Amazon, all that matters is the destination. No one cares how Amazon or Dominos get their order to their door.
This is why pizza restaurants offer delivery time guarantees and not guarantees around the journey of their driver.
Here's the thing...
Data science is about helping people make better decisions. And provided you can deliver on this promise, your end users don't care how you get there.
You may far prefer it if the journey to that destination involves
spending 3 months building a state-of-the-art neural network-based model.
But if a simple set of decision rules can get you 90% of the way there, in a fraction of the time, that's the solution your end users will value the most.
Talk again soon,
Dr Genevieve Hayes.
