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I am data science manager at my own startup. Everywhere I go, I tell people proudly, I am ardently and stridently against data democratization.

I honestly will prefer people make decisions with their guts than with ill-understood data. Instead what I get is people who don't understand the data, its context, its meanings (and what it doesn't mean) trying to lead people down the wrong road while using the data as crutch. It is so frustrating to me.

Intuition of folks with good understanding of the business, especially when their salaries depend on it is often a much much better compass than some rubbish someone is claiming data is saying.

Another term I hate with a passion "data driven". No! data drives nothing. "Data informed" is where its at. You take the data, our best understanding, mix it our understanding of things the data doesn't cover, and use to that inform the best decisions we can make.