A 4-Step Process to Answer “How Long Will This Take?”

How to tackle this common stakeholder question

Vicky Yu
Towards Data Science
3 min readAug 4, 2021

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In your role as a data scientist or data analyst, a common question you’ll get from stakeholders is “how long will this take”? When I first become a data scientist, I found the question challenging to answer. If I said it took a month to build a model and I couldn’t deliver, would that harm my…

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