Tips for surviving as Data Scientist employee #1

How to thrive as the first data-soldier on the ground

Richard Farnworth
Towards Data Science
11 min readAug 1, 2020

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More and more businesses are taking their first steps into Data Science, and many are hoping to build that capability in-house. This gives Data Scientists ample opportunities to get in on the ground floor and play a part in guiding an organisation towards a data savvy future.

I’ve been lucky/masochistic enough to do this with two different companies — a web design agency and a law firm. In the process I’ve learned a lot about how my…

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Data scientist, computer programmer and all-round geek with 10 years of using data in finance, retail and legal industries. Based in Adelaide, Australia.