From the course: Problem Identification and Solution Design for Data Scientists
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Striking the optimal amount of detail
From the course: Problem Identification and Solution Design for Data Scientists
Striking the optimal amount of detail
- [Instructor] There's a distinction between information-gathering and including it in a report. I'm generally inclined to make most information available. This could even include a summary of transcripts of conversations with subject matter experts. After all, transcripts are easy to automate and large language models even help summarize them for you. But you have to make all of this organized and easy to read. So, make sure you have an executive summary that is no longer than a page. And detail that isn't absolutely necessary should be referred to, but pushed into an appendix or placed in a supporting folder on a shared drive. Also, remember that not everyone needs the same information, so you might write a different email to the client executive, as opposed to the project lead, as opposed to your IT contact. The executive summary should be primarily written with the approving authority of the project in mind. Now, this may be all they see, pending recommendations from the rest of…
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