Building new DS department

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tl;dr: New data science department, not a data scientist, how should I proceed?

I've been tasked with establishing a Data Science department at my mid-sized, fairly traditional company. We have an Analytics department that focuses on descriptive analysis and data viz. My background is in operations research, so while I have some technical/stats knowledge, there's a lot that I don't know about being a Data Scientist.

I'm planning for 2022 and I know I need to build my fundamentals in …

building datascience