by Angela Guess
A new article discusses the job opportunities being created by Big Data, noting that the amount of data generated in 2008 alone is “the equivalent of stacking Stephen King novels to Neptune and back 20 times. And they say that figure is rising 30 to 40 percent a year.”
The article continues, “The problem is that there are not enough human programmers to find more sophisticated ways to crunch data. The Times quotes Chaitan K. Baru, a senior scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), which is affiliated with the university, saying: ‘The growth rates are enormous, and they’re only touching the surface of what’s possible. You need people who can come up with those clever algorithms.’”
The author notes, “That sounds like a huge job opportunity to me, not only for managing the data, but also interpreting the data. People with skills in Hadoop and other Big Data techniques are in hot demand, as are analytics professionals. And though there are fewer data center jobs and more is being automated, someone still has to manage all that hardware.”
