Jobs

A data science team boasts a wide array of talented individuals, including business analysts, statisticians, visualization designers and executives. As organizations rely increasingly on big data in decision-making, individuals with data science skills will be in greater demand in the years ahead.

Related Jobs News and Media

Webcast

Data Forecast: What’s Next in Data Science

4/05/2013 – Data science is what makes the Industrial Internet—the emerging network of machines from jet engines to steam turbines to smart appliances—so valuable. Top leaders in the field discuss its future at a panel hosted by GE. The discussion focuses on the increasing importance of data science in industry and challenging the next generation of data scientists to define future applications. Joining GE’s data science leader Anil Varma will be: Anthony Goldbloom, Founder and CEO of Kaggle; Hilary Mason, Chief Data Scientist at bitly; Annika Jimenez, Global Head of Data Science Services at Pivotal; and Dr. Andreas Weigend, from Stanford and UC-Berkeley’s joint Social Data Lab.

Industry News

Map data: Stick a pin on it

The Economist 4/04/2013 – WHEN Charlie Loyd wanted a job at a mapping firm, he did not send out resumés or make calls. Instead, he posted a message on Twitter that linked to a side-by-side comparison of satellite imagery of Cape Morris Jesup, Greenland's northernmost tip. On the left was a lacklustre image with no real detail captured by a NASA satellite and widely used by Mr Loyd's prospective employers; on the right, his own version.

Industry News

Machine learning needs human helping hand

ZDNet 4/04/2013 – Tech companies may be automating many of today's machine learning processes, but sophisticated as these may be, the human component in teaching these computers remains vital.

Industry News

Looking for a data scientist? Here’s who you need

Venture Beat 4/02/2013 – From healthcare and financial services, to government and academia, “big data” has gotten unprecedented attention as industries across the board struggle to answer a key question about their data: what does it all mean? Now, more than ever, companies are seeking out talent with deep analytical skills who can find the value in their data.

Industry News

How to bring out your inner data scientist

Smart Planet 3/26/2013 – At the end of last year, writing in Harvard Business Review, Tom Davenport, visiting professor at Harvard University and author of Competing on Analytics, proclaimed the role of data scientist to be the “sexiest job of the 21st century.”

Blog

eBay’s Beth Axelrod: Predictive Analytics is Transforming Human Resources

Greenplum Blog 3/26/2013 – The challenges of hiring skilled data scientists is well-documented, but what of Big Data’s impact on talent recruitment within other fields? According to Beth Axelrod, eBay’s Senior Vice President of Human Resources and the co-author of the new book The War for Talent, Human Resources is the latest department to be significantly disrupted within the data-driven enterprise.

Industry News

The Mayor’s Geek Squad

The New York Times 3/25/2013 – It was a case for a digital Sherlock Holmes. Last fall, the city’s Department of Environmental Protection wanted, finally, to crack down on restaurants that were illegally dumping cooking oil into sewers in their neighborhoods — congealed yellow grease is responsible, the department says, for more than half of New York’s clogged drains. The question, of course, was how to find the culprits?

Hadoop: The Foundation For Change

VIDEO 3/05/2013 – Hadoop is the engine powering the Big Data era, an unstoppable force boasting massive investments and a rich ecosystem. But this is only the beginning: Hadoop has the potential to reach beyond Big Data and become the Foundation for Change, catalyzing new levels of business productivity and transformation. Hadoop will become the Foundation for Change.

Industry News

This week’s 10 best data stories (so far)

GigaOm 2/27/2013 – There has been a lot of data news already this week — some big, some interesting, and some both. Here’s a collection of the stuff you shouldn’t, or don’t want to, miss.

Article

Scott Yara’s Strata Keynote: Data and Collaboration In “An Extraordinary Time”

Greenplum Blog 2/27/2013 – Greenplum co-founder Scott Yara struck an inspirational tone during his keynote at the Strata Conference on Wednesday, February 27th in Santa Clara. Yara cast a wide tent, paying tribute to the practitioners who have pushed the data community forward and inspired Greenplum's vision, emphasizing collaboration and the wide swath of sectors and issues that data science can deliver insight on. "It's an extraordinary time we find ourselves in," Yara said, delivering the talk to "our co-conspirators in this data community."

Industry News

EMC Greenplum Tackles Big Data With Hadoop Distribution

CIO 2/26/2013 – In a further sign that Big Data is beginning to hit its stride, EMC Greenplum on Monday debuted a new Apache Hadoop distribution that it hopes will soon become the de facto standard, pushing aside current leaders like Cloudera and Hortonworks.

An Industry Take on Pivotal HD

2/25/2013 – Hear from our customer and partner ecosystem on how Pivotal HD's Hadoop distribution is a Big Data game-changer for organizations of all sizes. Featuring VMWare, NYSE Euronext, Cisco, Tableau, GE, Factual, Alpine and more.

Jobs

Related Jobs News and Media

Data Forecast: What’s Next in Data Science

Map data: Stick a pin on it

Machine learning needs human helping hand

Looking for a data scientist? Here’s who you need

How to bring out your inner data scientist

eBay’s Beth Axelrod: Predictive Analytics is Transforming Human Resources

The Mayor’s Geek Squad

Hadoop: The Foundation For Change

This week’s 10 best data stories (so far)

Scott Yara’s Strata Keynote: Data and Collaboration In “An Extraordinary Time”

EMC Greenplum Tackles Big Data With Hadoop Distribution

An Industry Take on Pivotal HD

Pages

Greenplum Jobs