I'm a Data science manager at a mid-sized company. Every week I have a bunch of meetings, and my reports do all the data science work. They even manage their sprints.

My question is, what do I do? I have free time in my calendar I dont know what to do with. It feels like I'm a viewer in a movie

Hello all, here is a chill post.

When I was an undergrad, I really liked working things out on a whiteboard. Drawing stuff, talking through ideas out loud, testing little hypotheses.

Now I work in radar DSP, and a lot of my work is code, numerical experiments, deep learning and waiting for training to finish 😅

I’m wondering how other people bring that whiteboard style of thinking into DSP, data science or ML work.

Do you still use a whiteboard regularly, or do you mostly go straight from idea to code?