HCA Healthcare's director of enterprise data science shared in a session during the Nashville Analytics Summit on Monday how organizations need to evaluate themselves first in order to hire the right data science team. In presenting his session, Jesse Spencer-Smith recalled the early challenges the health care giant faced as its leaders made the decision to expand beyond their single data science team eight years ago.

Spencer-Smith, who joined HCA in 2010 after leaving his post as professor of quantitative psychology at the University of Illinois, delved into how an organization can be at varying stages of data science maturity. Yet he also showed how a team can utilize a data scientist at any stage, provided that the skillset match the needs of the group's maturity stage. A visual recap of the session is above.