Smart Data Slides: Data Science and Business Analysis – A Look at Best Practices for Roles, Skills, and Processes from DATAVERSITY To view the On Demand recording of this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar Google “citizen data scientist” today and you will see about 1M results. That number is data. It may be interesting, […]
Data Science Education: An Overview of Academic Programs in the USA
When the 2011 McKinsey report estimated that 2018 will witness a severe shortage of about “140,000 to 190,000 data analytics experts” in the US industry, the universities began to wake up to the need for new and improved US academic programs in Data Science Education. Moreover, in a 2012 blog post titled Big Data and Data […]
DefinedCrowd Announces Alpha Release of Enterprise Software-as-a-Service
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “DefinedCrowd Corp., an intelligent data platform helping data scientists enrich and train data for artificial intelligence (AI) applications, today announced the release of the alpha version of their Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for enterprise-scale speech technologies and natural language processing (NLP). With their expertise in speech and natural language […]
Will Data Scientists Automate Themselves Out of Jobs?
Click to learn more about author James Kobielus. Productivity in Data Science isn’t a matter of output in any quantitative sense. It’s more an issue of the quality of what Data Scientists produce. In a Data Science context, quality refers to the validity and relevance of the insights that statistical models are able to distill from […]
New Research Proves Increased Awareness in the Value of Open Data Science
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “New research announced today by Continuum Analytics, the creator and driving force behind Anaconda, the leading Open Data Science platform powered by Python, finds that 96 percent of data science and analytics decision makers agree that data science is critical to the success of their business, […]
Big Data Analytics: Role of Automation
Click to learn more about author Arun Goyal. The emergence of Big Data largely changed the digital landscape and organizational operations. The disparity of data was effectively mitigated by its intensified analytics. With the evolution of newer trends in this realm, the technologies are getting polished. Automation of Big Data is the most disruptive technology changing […]
Cazena Announces New Data Science Sandbox as a Service
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Today Cazena unveiled its Data Science Sandbox as a Service at Spark Summit East 2017 in Boston. The service is designed to deliver significantly faster outcomes from data science and analytics programs. Now, data scientists can run a wide range of analytics in a flexible cloud environment […]
Continuum Analytics Announces Anaconda Fusion for Self-Service Data Science
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “Continuum Analytics, the creator and driving force behind Anaconda, the leading Open Data Science platform powered by Python, today announced the release of Anaconda Fusion, an Open Data Science integration for Microsoft Excel®. Anaconda Fusion combines Anaconda Enterprise with Microsoft Excel, empowering business analysts to collaborate effectively […]
BlueData Brings DevOps Agility to Data Science Operations with Spark, R, and Python
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “BlueData, provider of the leading Big-Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) software platform, today announced the new winter release for the BlueData EPIC software platform. This new release delivers several new enhancements for data science operations, bringing DevOps agility and collaboration to data science teams as well as support for new […]
Data Science Education: Stanford University’s Program
The Stanford Data Science education program is small with competitive acceptance requirements. It is administrated by their Statistics Department. Guenther Walther, Chairman of the Statistics Department, was asked what students can do to get in the program. He responded: “The admissions process is competitive, indeed. We had close to 400 applicants for the eight spots […]