A recent press release reports, “Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. and Stradigi AI, a leading Canadian artificial intelligence (AI) solutions provider, today announced a strategic partnership to offer AI implementation solutions combining Stradigi AI’s specialized data science skills with Cray’s supercomputing expertise and advanced technologies. Under the partnership, Cray will bundle Stradigi AI’s domain expertise […]
The Innovative Data Scientist: Overcoming the Big Data and Data Management Divide
In an ideal world, a Data Scientist is expected to demonstrate a rare combination of technical, analytical, and communication skills that make them sought after data innovators. In the real world, Data Scientists arrive from a wide variety of academic majors like mathematics, statistics, economics, operations research, or computer science. Additionally, the roles they assume […]
Data Science Education at Carnegie Mellon University: Demand for Analytics Skills
The wide acceptance and demand for Data Science education is reflected in the variety of graduate programs at Carnegie Mellon University. There are nine degree programs offered through four schools, emphasizing different aspects of analytics. Two degrees, the Master’s in Machine Learning and Master’s in Computational Data Science emphasize the computer science elements; the Master’s […]
A Comprehensive Review of Skills Required for Data Scientist Jobs
The Data Scientist is the quintessential “go-between,” carrying the problems of the business folks to the IT department, and then bringing back the technological solutions to the business units. A good Data Scientist not only explores, designs, and engineers business solutions, but also determines the best technological option at hand to arrive at such solutions. […]
Expanding Data Science Skills to Meet the Needs of Big Data
by Angela Guess Aaron Auld recently wrote in ITProPortal, “Today data scientists can be deprived of their strengths when moving to larger datasets – datasets in the realm of ‘big data’ – because large scale tools are too inflexible to support the data science style of working. Michael Stonebreaker, winner of the Turing Award 2014. […]
The 3 Essential Skill Areas of Data Science
by Angela Guess Bob Hayes recently wrote in Business2Community, “Gil Press offers an excellent summary of the field of data science. According to Press, the term, data science, first appears in use in 1974. He concludes that data science is way of extracting insights from data using the powers of computer science and statistics applied […]
Most In-Demand Data Science Skills of 2016
by Angela Guess Seamus Breslin recently wrote in InsideBigData, “Big data has been the watchword for a while in IT, so it’s no surprise that data science skills are in hot demand and the job has perhaps mischievously been labelled as the ‘sexiest job in the 21st century’ by the Harvard Business Review. It’s a […]
Shifting Your Focus from Big Data Infrastructure to Data Science Skills
by Angela Guess Dr. David Johnston, Lead Data Scientist at ThoughtWorks recently wrote in Data-Informed, “A recent white paper and survey from IDG Research and Kapow Software states: ‘Big data projects are taking far too long, costing too much, and not delivering on anticipated ROI because it’s really difficult to pinpoint and surgically extract critical […]
The Top 10 Skills Required in Data Science
by Angela Guess Bob Hayes recently analyzed the top ten skills needed by Data Science professionals in Business2Community. He writes, “In our ongoing study of data scientists, we ask data professionals to indicate their proficiency in 25 different data science skills. The 25 skills, listed in Figure 1 (above), reflect the set of skills that […]