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My name’s Jack Parmer, and I’m the former CEO and co-founder of Plotly.

It's becoming clear that the traditional “citizen data scientist” approach, focusing on no-code tools, has become an evolutionary dead end. Organizations who have pursued this route have little to show beyond PoCs and one-off successes despite years of investment in training and underutilized, proprietary tools. The best that can be said is that these efforts have been a costly way of democratizing data prep and business intelligence. In reality, they have been a step in the wrong direction for analytics and data science maturity.

If you’re working in data science and are feeling like making a job change, here are some things top data science innovators say to consider as you look for a new opportunity or plan your next career move. Their career advice–and much more–is captured in the new ebook, The Data Science Innovator’s Playbook, from Domino Data Lab.

How do you build a data science capability into a powerful force for making decisions about virtually all facets of your business? And how do you recruit, train, organize, and retrain members of your team, in a field where competition for talent is intense and growing? These are just a couple of the questions that Glenn Hofmann, chief analytics officer at New York Life Insurance Company, has confronted and mastered in his tenure there.