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Most In-Demand Data Science Skills
Source: CrowdFlower, based on “3500 relevant job openings from LinkedIn.” The folks at CrowdFlower excluded Excel from their list but noted that “that’s still something you see in myriad job listings. Old habits die hard.” Of course, data scientists don’t … Continue reading
5 Origins of Data Science
Source: Impact of Big Data on Analytics
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Data Science Skills: Domain Expertise, Programming, Statistics
Source: Business Over Broadway Based on a study of 620+ data professionals, we found that data science skills fall into three broad areas: domain expertise (in our case, business), technology/programming and math/statistics.
Big Data Self-Delusion
The most compelling story told in the new documentary “The Human Face of Big Data” (PBS, February 24), is about the collection and analysis of data to predict the onset of potentially deadly infection in premature babies. By the time … Continue reading
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IIA, Forrester, IDC, and Gartner on the Future of Big Data Analytics and Cognitive Computing
Big data analytics is the next trillion-dollar market, says Michael Dell. IDC has a more modest and specific prediction, forecasting the market for big data technology and services to grow at a 23.1% compound annual growth rate, reaching $48.6 billion … Continue reading
10 New Big Data Observations from Tom Davenport
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdHhD4n3iFE?rel=0] The term “big data” has become nearly ubiquitous. Indeed, it seems that every day we hear new reports of how some company is using big data and sophisticated analytics to become increasingly competitive. The topic first began to … Continue reading
The Internet of Things: Why now and how big?
Now that it has been established that the Internet of Things is the most hyped “emerging technology” today, and that the term—and the associated technologies—is far from being new, the only question to be answered is Why the sudden surge … Continue reading
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The Web at 25: The Value of Open
The Internet started as a network for linking research centers. The World Wide Web started as a way to share information among researchers at CERN. Both have expanded to touch today a third of the world’s population because they have … Continue reading
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The Digital Marketing Landscape: 2 Views
Source: Gartner Source: chiefmartec.com
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The Digitization of IT
In many companies today, the “consumerization of IT” is turning into the “Digitization of IT.” The spreading of consumer technologies and services into the workplace is being expanded into a larger set of IT practices, borrowed from Silicon Valley innovators … Continue reading
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