From the course: Data Science Foundations: Fundamentals
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From the course: Data Science Foundations: Fundamentals
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- [Instructor] If you're working in a startup or, really, any entrepreneurial or organizational setting, then you know that your work is all about getting results. And that brings up something that I mentioned earlier in this course I want to mention again, from one of my heroes, the American psychologist and philosopher William James, who said, "My thinking is first and last and always "for the sake of my doing." His point is that human cognition is designed to fulfill goals, to help us reach a particular end. And I like to summarize that and apply it towards data science with this thought, that data and data science is for doing. It exists to help us do things. And the reason we do these projects is to help us accomplish things that are important to us. Remember, when you did the project, there was a goal, there was some motivation. What motivated the project? What sorts of things did you stick up on the wall?…
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