The ASA North Carolina Chapter kicked off its professional webinar series with Aric LaBarr presenting “What Does Data Science Mean to an Executive?” to more than 60 attendees February 22.

LaBarr, a faculty member in the Institute for Advanced Analytics at North Carolina State University, gave an engaging presentation about communication and data science geared toward data scientists and management.

LaBarr

When talking about getting a project started, LaBarr pointed out he’s never had a project not be successful because he asked too many questions. He made many other interesting points about communication throughout the webinar, concluding that communication involves both the desire to communicate and the humility to learn.

LaBarr also discussed how deployment, data, return on investment, culture, and leadership all tie into communication and that mathematical successes do not automatically translate to business successes.

After the webinar, audience members were able to ask questions, which included how to develop soft skills, how to keep communication open, what to do about jargon, and how to address the idea that more data is better data.

The recording of this webinar is available on the chapter’s YouTube channel and information about upcoming webinars can be found on its website.