The Unsung Hero of Data Science: Why You Need to Be a Storyteller, Not Just a Coder
Let me tell you a story… :) The Devastation The Unsung Hero of Data Science: Why You Need to Be a Storyteller, Not Just a Coder Let’s be honest for a second. We, as data scientists, love our comfort zone. We love the quiet hum of a GPU training a deep learning model. We love the satisfaction of watching a loss function converge. We love arguing about whether XGBoost or LightGBM is superior for tabular data. But here is a hard truth that I had to learn the hard way: Your stakeholders do not care about your AUC-ROC score. The CEO doesn't care about your p-values. The Head of Marketing doesn't care that you used a Transformer architecture instead of an LSTM. They care about impact. They care about revenue. They care about risk. And the only bridge between your complex, beautiful code and their business goals is Storytelling. The "Black Box" Problem (It’s Not What You Think) When we talk about the "Black Box" problem in ML, we usually mean interpretability—L...