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> Managers will say they want to make data-driven decisions, but they really want decision-driven data.

Has been my experience as ML engineer too. Decision making being intuition- and not data-driven was one of the largest shocks to me when I went from academia into industry.

How upper management and the board determine the course of the company was based more on emotion than anything else.



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