Tag Archives: data science

The ‘Data Science Arms Race’ has Begun (Barron’s)

Three major trends sweeping the asset management industry -- robo advisors, sustainable investing, and smart-beta or factor investing -- have been driven by investors' penchant for... More

IBM, Hortonworks Team Up to Make Data Science More Mainstream (eWeek)

Hortonworks and IBM have formed a new partnership promising to extend access to data science and machine learning to more developers across the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. The compani... More

Data Science Skills Gap May Be Narrowing (Datanami)

Big data “hype” has attracted more new data scientists, thereby driving down salaries for new entrants for the first time in four years, according to a salary survey. The repor... More

Data Science vs. Data Analytics – Why Does It Matter? (Dataconomy)

Jargon can be downright intimidating and seemingly impenetrable to the uninformed. While complicated vernacular is an unfortunate side effect of the similarly complicated world of ... More

Data Science Underlies Everything the Enterprise Now Does (IM)

Data has been king for well over a decade by now, but the way we use it is undergoing some serious change. Gone are the days of awe at pretty charts and heat maps. Gone, too, is an... More

Data Science is a Contact Sport (CIO)

Key to success in an A.I. or IoT or data strategy is data scientist productivity. Data scientist productivity is defined as the volume of business-critical results driven through d... More

RSG Media: Leveraging Audience Data Across Platforms with Data Science (RSG.TV)

Video: There are so many sources of valuable information, media companies must merge all of these data currents that make up this vast ocean, and make sense of it. In this debu... More

4 Reasons to Build Predictive Customer Analytics into Your Retail Business (Data Informed)

Data science is playing an increasingly bigger role in how businesses utilize technology in strategy, planning, and operations. Everyone is trying to collect data, analyze it and a... More

Data Science is Creating a Tidal Wave of Opportunity for Women to Get Into Executive Leadership (Recode)

We have reached the tipping point in big data. We can now access, manage and manipulate massive amounts of data with such ease that the real work has shifted to analysis and practi... More

Data Science Platforms Seen as Difference-Makers (Datanami)

How will data scientists work in the future? Based on today’s trends and a new survey by Forrester, it seems likely that much of the work that data scientists do will revolve aro... More

Data Science is Easy; Making it Work is Hard (CIO)

Steve Jones, global vice president of big data, Capgemini: In the world of data science, there are three core problems: acquiring data, doing the math and taking action. Two of tho... More

Six Secrets to Landing a Job in Data Science (DataInformed)

If you’re considering a job in data science, you’ve picked a good time. Employers across every industry are hiring data scientists. Here’s some more good news: You don’t ne... More

Dark Data: The Hidden Billion Dollar Opportunity (SDC)

Every organization collects, stores and retains portions of dark data. It’s the digital equivalent of emotional baggage which hangs around after every user interaction, transacti... More

Why is Data Science Such an Important Skill? (Silicon Republic)

The fundamental goal of data science should be to help humans make either quicker decisions or better decisions. You could assume that this is truer for some industries than others... More

Why You’re Not Getting Value from Your Data Science (HBR)

Businesses today are constantly generating enormous amounts of data, but that doesn’t always translate to actionable information. Over the past several years, my research group a... More

How Data Science Will Change IT Operations (Data Informed)

IT today still operates in silos and, as a result, visibility into IT Operations is significantly limited. According to a 2015 Application Performance Monitoring survey, 65% of sur... More

Media Research is Now Data Science: TiVo’s FitzGerald (Beet.TV)

“One of the main shifts is the shift from what I’ll call media research to data science,” she tells Beet.TV in this video interview. “The investment in big data processing ... More

Why You Need a Data Science Platform (Datanami)

Advanced analytics and predictive modeling are now essential to businesses looking to optimize decision making and deliver value to customers. But even as organizations invest more... More

Driving Value with Data Science (Dataconomy)

Fighting fraud, reducing customer churn, improving the bottom line – these are just a few of the promises of data science. Today, we have more data to work with than ever before... More

The Alan Turing Institute Gets $5 Million Microsoft Azure Credits to Work on Data Science (ITProPortal)

The Azure platform will be used by researchers at the institute to perform computer-intensive operations, including data analytics at scale. The Institute will join more than 1,000... More