In spite of significant efforts to train more Data Scientists, a shortage continues to exist. There is simply more demand than available applicants for this new career field. Data Science education is a growing field requiring both training and hands-on experience. Some have gained an understanding of Data Science through non-academic experience, while others have […]
What Is Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)?
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) describes a model where customers license a software application provided by and outsides vendor. In return, as Gartner states, “a customer gets a software based on one set of common code and data definitions.” Depending on the vendor’s payment program, users can access the software at any time. Think of SaaS like an […]
“Talk to me, Data!” – Getting Data Models Right
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. The title of this post sounds as if it is a quote from a Star Trek episode. I don’t believe it is, but a lot of the dialogue involving Lt. Commander Data is indeed about understanding. Here is an example from Star Trek: The Next Generation: Starship […]
The Data Governance Playbook: Sixteen Steps to Better Data Privacy
Managing privacy in a Big Data environment can seem overwhelming, yet Sunil Soares, founder of Information Asset, while speaking at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online 2017 Conference, said that Data Privacy challenges can be overcome: “This is not a secret sauce! A lot of this you’re going to do anyway from an Enterprise Data […]
Enterprise Analytics Online 2018 – Free Online Conference
DATE: October 17, 2018 LOCATION: Online Conference Join us October 17th, 2018 for Enterprise Analytics Online. This online event will be a full day of live online sessions presented by industry experts. The in-depth educational program is designed to teach anyone working with data to execute and implement a successful Data Analytics program. WEBSITE: eanalyticsonline.com
Case Study: Implementing Data Governance for Data Lakes and Big Data
Shannon Fuller says that knowing what your priorities are is the key piece to efficient development of a governance structure for the Data Lake. Fuller is the Director of Data Governance at Carolinas Healthcare System, where he piloted an HDInsight Hadoop implementation on Microsoft Azure. Speaking at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online Conference, Fuller […]
Data Science Education: An Overview of Academic Programs in the USA
When the 2011 McKinsey report estimated that 2018 will witness a severe shortage of about “140,000 to 190,000 data analytics experts” in the US industry, the universities began to wake up to the need for new and improved US academic programs in Data Science Education. Moreover, in a 2012 blog post titled Big Data and Data […]
Qubole Announces General Availability of Big Data Service on the Oracle Cloud
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Qubole, the big data-as-a-service company and Silver level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork, today announced the general availability of its Qubole Data Service (QDS) on the Oracle Cloud. The Qubole Data Service leverages high-performance bare metal on Oracle Cloud to provide customers with fast access to analytics that […]
Data Lineage and Data Quality: Two Vital Elements for Enterprise Success
“An enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially, to be able to respond to unexpected events,” said Ian Rowlands, while speaking at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data World 2016 Conference. In his presentation he discussed the […]
Data Lakes 101: An Overview
A Data Lake is a pool of unstructured and structured data, stored as-is, without a specific purpose in mind, that can be “built on multiple technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL, Amazon Simple Storage Service, a relational database, or various combinations thereof,” according to a white paper called What is a Data Lake and Why Has […]