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Standards Effort Seeks to Redefine ‘Data Scientist’

"Da-ta Sci-en-tist, noun, a person employed to analyze and interpret complex digital data, such as the usage statistics of a website, especially in order to assist a business in its decision-making." That's one genera Read more…

Data Science Ed: 5 Tips for Undergrads

Demand for data scientists continues to rise as organizations seek new ways to monetize their data. Those who want to be considered for top data science jobs need a solid education behind them, including postgraduate deg Read more…

The 3 Roles Needed for the Modern Data Team

According to the McKinsey Global Institute, data-driven organizations are 23 times more likely to acquire customers, six times as likely to retain those customers, and 19 times as likely to be profitable as a result. As Read more…

Taking the Data Scientist Out of Data Science

If you were a data scientist three years ago, you could pretty much write your own ticket. Everybody in the industry, it seemed, either wanted to hire a data scientist, or wanted to be one. But today, thanks to a conflue Read more…

Q&A with a DataCamp Counselor

One of the great things about data science is there are multiple pathways into the field. Some may segue into the profession from "hard sciences" like physics, while others receive Ph.Ds in the discipline after years of Read more…

H2O.ai Boasts New AI Product Like ‘Kaggle Grandmaster in a Box’

Want to get started with data science and artificial intelligence, but lack the skilled personnel to do it? You could be a candidate for machine learning software company H2O.ai's latest creation, Driverless AI, which it Read more…

Automating Development and Optimization of Machine Learning Models

You don’t need to be an expert in machine learning to know that it’s an exceptionally detail-oriented craft. Every step of the machine-learning development process—from preprocessing the data and engineering the fe Read more…

Universities Roll Out New Data Science Programs

College grads looking to take the next step in their data science careers will have several new graduate-level data science programs to enroll in this fall, including a new Master's of Applied Data Science at Syracuse Un Read more…

Data Opportunities Slipping Through the Cracks

If you're struggling to make the most of your data, take heart in the fact that you're not alone. A large percentage of companies are not fully executing on their big data, data science, and IoT strategies, several recen Read more…

Why You Need a Data Science Platform

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 resources in big data and data science, Read more…

Why Data Science is a Team Sport at AOL

As the world's fifth largest digital advertising network, AOL chews through a lot of data. That's not surprising. What may surprise you, however, is the unconventional way that the company goes about assembling its data Read more…

Data Engineers in Hot Demand

The big data community has been dealing with the data scientist shortage ever since big data became a thing. Now we're learning that there's possibly an even bigger shortage of another type of data professional: the data Read more…

Data Science Education Evolves to Meet Surging Demand

Here's some good news for young data science professionals looking for that first job: your skills are in high demand and will help you land a job with an average starting salary close to $120,000. But there's also some Read more…

Data Scientists: The Myth and the Reality

Given the fact that the term “data scientist” has only been around since 2008, it is a surprising fact to learn that there is a major global shortage of the wonderful wizards of big data. In 2008, DJ Patil, who at Read more…

What Data Science Skills Employers Want Now

There's good news if you're for a job in data science in 2016 -- the number of job openings in the field appears to be rising as companies look to leverage big data for competitive advantage. But actually landing a covet Read more…

Skip the Ph.D and Learn Spark, Data Science Salary Survey Says

Prospective data scientists can boost their salary more by learning Apache Spark and its tied-at-the-hip language Scala than obtaining a Ph.D., a recent data science survey by O'Reilly suggests. In its 2015 Data Scien Read more…

Are You Ready For a Data Scientist?

Are you wondering if now is the time to get a data scientist on board to help investigate the value of data assets, maybe even your big data? My advice: don’t do it if you are not ready. The demand for data scientists Read more…

So You Want To Be a Data Scientist: A Guide for College Grads

Congratulations, recent college graduate, and welcome to the workforce! Of all the jobs that you'll apply for, the one with the sexy title "data scientist" may be the toughest to get--and potentially the most rewarding t Read more…

Rise of the Big Data Engineer

Over the past three years, businesses have scrambled to hire data scientists who can spin big data into gold. But it turns out the person best equipped to get data analytics applications into production may be a good dat Read more…

The Evolution of the Data Scientist

The role of the data scientist is currently one of the most in-demand jobs in the tech industry. As more businesses turn to big data analytics for insights into their customers, trends in their industries and to gain a c Read more…

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