Before implementing your first prototype, you will need to find promising ideas to work on. To create ideas, you can work from one of two starting points: business or data.
Finding project ideas
Finding ideas in business processes
If you are working with an already established business, the first and the most obvious way to find ideas is to ask management about their needs. Merging data science expertise with deep domain knowledge will allow you to find a match between their requests and your team's capabilities. However, your customers will rarely have a problem they know about. The most likely response you will get while using this strategy is, We know of this problem, and we are already working on the solution.
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