Another Happy Big Data Year!

Jan 8, 2014

Capgemini

The ongoing explosion of Big Data continues to drown organizations in a potentially valuable information tsunami. People who can make sense of it all – aka quantitative analysts or data scientists – are scarce to say the least. Currently, the U.S. job market seeks almost 200,000 of them to fill open positions, and in addition 1.5 million data literate managers need retraining.

Colleges and universities have noticed the demand for data science skills and have created programs to educate these badly needed data people. Good data scientists have these three essential traits:

1. The can model a data set mathematically.
2. The have software engineering skills.
3. They can find insights and tell stories from the data.

Projections indicate that the Big Data market will continue to experience meteoretic growth:

Source: the invaluable DOMO blog.

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