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How to Reduce Stress in a Data Analytics Job
There’s a lot of information on how to become a data scientist or a data analyst but there’s little on how stressful these positions can be. As someone first starting out as a data scientist or a data analyst you may unknowingly put yourself into a stressful situation. Today I’d like to share my experiences when I was a data scientist versus a data analyst and my advice to prevent stressful situations from forming.
So much work, so little time
Stress caused by a looming due date is very common. Reduce stress by working with your stakeholders to prioritize requests and agree on a project timeline and deliverables. Use this 4-step process to help estimate how long it will take to complete a project.
When I was a data scientist, it was time consuming to clean data and train the model to generate accurate results. Stakeholders didn’t understand the model development process and why it took so long. At the start of a project, we had a meeting to discuss the timeline and milestones. For example, data preparation 2 weeks, model training 2 weeks, model refinement and validation 2 weeks, summarizing results 1 week for a total of 7 weeks. Listing out milestones helped my stakeholders understand the…
