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Data Science vs. Data Alchemy – by Lucas Vermeer

Data Science vs. Data Alchemy – by Lucas Vermeer

How do scurvy, astronomy, alchemy and data science relate to each other?

In this goto conference presentation, Lucas Vermeer — Director of Experimentation at Booking.com — uses some amazing storytelling to demonstrate how the value of data (science) is largely by organizations capability to gather the right data — the data they actually need.

It’s a definite recommendation to watch for data scientists and data science leaders out there.

Here are the slides, and they contain some great oneliners:

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