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How To Call B.S. On Big Data: A Practical Guide
Students now learning to navigate the hazards of our information-addled age

Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you," the Oxford philosophy professor John Alexander Smith told his students, in 1914, "save only this: if you work hard and intelligently, you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot." Smith might be pleased to know that this week, at the University of Washington some hundred and fifty students will complete "Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data".  + Read More
IBM Predicts Demand For Data Scientists Will Soar 28% By 2020
The future looks bright for Data Science

Jobs requiring machine learning skills are paying an average of $114,000. Advertised data scientist jobs pay an average of $105,000 and advertised data engineering jobs pay an average of $117,000. Annual demand for the fast-growing new roles of data scientist, data developers, and data engineers will reach nearly 700,000 openings by 2020.   + Read More
The Next Step for Big Data
Real-time data brings big-time business solutions

The capability to analyze data as it is collected allows a company to reach solutions to business problems immediately, rather than weeks or months later when sales opportunities have already been missed. Real-time data is the next step for Big Data, and it will help lead businesses to faster answers. The solutions that it can offer a company are only as limited as the creativity of a business. + Read More
Sorry, Amazon, But Microsoft Is The World's #1 Cloud Vendor - Here's Why
Amazon Web Services is one of the truly great success stories of the past decade

Superb vision, brilliant execution, outstanding people, and a hockey-stick growth rate that most enterprise-tech vendors can only dream about. But life's not always fair, and while AWS and its supporters can make some good points about how and why it's the biggest of the big dogs in the cloud, the simple truth is that Microsoft is able to offer corporate customers more cloud innovation across more parts of those customers' businesses-and can drive more business value for those customers via the cloud-than Amazon can.  + Read More
The 9 Best Free Online Big Data And Data Science Courses
Demand for skilled data scientists continues to be sky-high

IBM recently predicted that there will be a 28% increase in the number of employed data scientists in the next two years. Businesses in all industries are beginning to capitalize on the vast increase in data and the new technologies becoming available for analyzing and gaining value from it. This makes it a great prospect for anyone looking for a well-paid career in an exciting and cutting-edge field.   + Read More
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