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Hellerstein: Humans are the Bottleneck

Humans are the bottleneck right now in the data space, commented database systems luminary, Joe Hellerstein during an interview this week at Strata 2013. Read more…

Alteryx Aims to Bypass Data Scientists by “Humanizing” Big Data

Founded in 1997 by a group including president and CEO, Dean Stoecker, Alteryx received $6 million in investment funding by SAP Ventures in 2011 to deliver business intelligence solutions to Fortune 500, mid-market companies and federal government customers. In that time, Alteryx has focused its attention on providing solutions to line-of-business decision makers - a group it refers to as “Data Artisans.” Read more…

Six Big Name Schools with Big Data Programs

This week we whittled down the small but growing list of "big name" universities that are helping to solve the big data technologies talent gap. From degrees in data science to more specific certification programs for current IT professionals, these six schools.... Read more…

EMC Study Points to Gaps in Data Science

This week EMC released the results of a recent international survey of over 500 data scientists to discover what key challenges they faced. Instead of technological hurdles, however, the personnel and training issues took top billing. Read more…

Making Sport of Data Science

Data and sports go hand in hand, but increasingly, data scientists are making sport of increasingly complex problems that real-world companies seek solutions to. Enter Kaggle, which is bringing a new challenge to boost healthcare analytics. Read more…

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