Education hasn’t kept up with development in Big Data according to Deng. “We are facing a huge deficit in people to not only handle big data, but more importantly to have the knowledge and skills to generate value from data — dealing with the non-stop tsunami. How do you aggregate and filter data, how do… [Read more…]
May 20, 2011
Source: Check page alerts, InfoMinder, Infostreams and Twitter Stream Top 75 College Education Tweets and Twitter Accounts via @onlinecourse Unemployed, educated, and indebted, more Millennials seeking work beyond U.S via @onlinecourse Hacker Monthly Hacker Monthly – checkout the special issue on startup stories. I found this via YC News and a @checkpage alert. Growing need for… [Read more…]
February 3, 2011
It’s been said that 90 percent of the data that exists today was created in the last two years. That staggering “hockey-stick” growth presents challenges that must be met if we are to gain valuable insight from that data. If there ever was a time to have a big data strategy in place, it’s now!… [Read more…]
November 20, 2010
Stumbled on this great presentation from LinkedIn. Here are some really great insights: Isolated infrastructure team is really a bad solution Building a multi-TB lookup infrastructure is really, really hard work, Solution: Build this structure in Hadoop
September 15, 2010
The duties of the Data Scientist will include, but not be limited to: Designing and building new processes for large and complex data sets Thinking strategically about uses of data and how that interacts with data design Designing and implementing statistical data quality procedures around new data sources Performing data studies and data discovery around… [Read more…]
January 22, 2012
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