In January 2016, the Chief Analytics Officer Forum brought together over 230+ Chief Analytics Officers, Senior Analytics Experts and Innovators for its inaugural event in New York. The two days were filled with networking, high level insight and discussion, addressing the hottest topics and challenges faced by CAOs and Senior Analytics professionals. Following the success of … [Read more...] about Chief Analytics Officer Forum Fall
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International Students Needed for Scottish Data Science
CEO Michael Young has called for post-graduation employment opportunities to be improved for international data science students at Scottish universities. The issue of retaining skilled international workers has hit the headlines a lot recently. Its not long since we saw business leaders back the UK parliamentary report which claimed the rules for students remaining in Scotland … [Read more...] about International Students Needed for Scottish Data Science
How to Close the Big Data Talent Gap at Your Organization
This article is sponsored by Acamar - a staffing agency specializing in emerging Information Management (IM) competencies. Big data offers many benefits for organizations in all industries, but unfortunately, a lot of companies dont reap these benefits yet. The reason is not that they dont want to start with big data, nor that they dont understand what big data is. The … [Read more...] about How to Close the Big Data Talent Gap at Your Organization
How Organizations Can Deal With the Shortage in Data Scientists
Given the fact that the term data scientist has only been coined since 2008, it is a surprising fact to learn that there is a major global shortage of the wonderful wizards of big data. In 2008 DJ Patil who at the time was the head of analytics at LinkedIn, created the people you may know feature through the interpretation of big data. So its easy to see just how the use of big … [Read more...] about How Organizations Can Deal With the Shortage in Data Scientists
Big Data-as-a-Service Solutions Will Revolutionize Big Data
Big Data services offered in the cloud is nothing new. In the past years, we have seen many Big Data vendors that have created Big Data solutions that can be accessed via the web to crunch and analyse your data. Recently, however, we have seen the rise of a new type of offering: Big Data-as-a-Service solutions. These solutions differ from Software-as-a-Service solutions or … [Read more...] about Big Data-as-a-Service Solutions Will Revolutionize Big Data
