Journal: People Science - Human Capital Management & Leadership in the public sector Volume 1, Issue 2 Spring/Summer 2014 | Page 17

to select the data scientists who should be proactively
managed across all aspects of the community’s human
capital strategy.
Current performance and future potential are both important
attributes and the community will be healthiest if it can retain
a group with both. Given the overall competition for data
scientists within the public sector and the private sector, it is
important to understand why the members of the community
who were not identified among the best contributors were
rated that way. The reasons these data scientist were
evaluated as limited contributors can inform the content
of their individual development plans. It may also keep the
community’s leaders abreast of life circumstances outside of
work that mi