Do you know why you’re hiring data scientists? A lot of companies feel pressure to hire one, but a lot of companies aren’t ready for them or don’t know what to do […]
Many companies jump the gun in hiring data scientists
Introduction to Apache Spark: Big Data Analytics Simplified
Initially developed at U.C. Berkeley’s AMPLab in 2009, Apache Spark is a “lightning-fast unified analytics engine” for large-scale data processing. It can be used with cluster computing platforms such as Hadoop, Mesos, […]
10 must-have features for big data analytics tools
Searching for a big data tool? You’ll want to make sure it allows you to embed results, can easily integrate with other apps and offers version control, among other capabilities. Big data […]
Acute Shortage Of Professionals Who Understand Big Data Analytics The Biggest Challenge: Kaushik Srinivasan Of eMudhra
As part of this month’s theme — “Challenges in the analytics industry”, we bring an interview with Kaushik Srinivasan, Senior Vice President(SVP) of eMudhra, a popular tech company which provides data security […]
Why You Need to Trust Your Data
There’s something that often gets lost in discussions about artificial intelligence and advanced analytics: the importance of the data. Having good, clean data is absolutely essential, but all too often, companies lack […]
Citizen Data Science and the Democratization of Analytics
Democratization through machine learning and knowledge-sharing tools is expanding data science capabilities to more and more “citizens” in the broader working community. The ongoing shortage of data scientists has been well documented. […]
10 signs you might not be cut out for a data scientist job
The data scientist role has been attracting quite a bit of attention and interest–but if you’re considering a job in that field, make sure you know what you’re taking on. College students […]
