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Identifying budding big data talent in your company

O'Reilly Media - Data

Big data is often called one of the most important skill sets in the 21st century, and it’s experiencing enormous demand in the job market. Hiring data scientists and other big data professionals is a major challenge for large enterprises, leading many to shift their efforts to training existing staff.

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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

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To help address the problem, he says, companies are doing a lot of outsourcing, depending on vendors and their client engagement engineers, or sending their own people to training programs. In the Randstad survey, for example, 35% of people have been offered AI training up from just 13% in last years survey.

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Tonic is betting that synthetic data is the new big data to solve scalability and security

TechCrunch

Big data is a sham. There is just one problem with big data though: it’s honking huge. Processing petabytes of data to generate business insights is expensive and time consuming. Processing petabytes of data to generate business insights is expensive and time consuming. What should a company do?

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The top 15 big data and data analytics certifications

CIO

Data and big data analytics are the lifeblood of any successful business. Getting the technology right can be challenging but building the right team with the right skills to undertake data initiatives can be even harder — a challenge reflected in the rising demand for big data and analytics skills and certifications.

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EarthOptics helps farmers look deep into the soil for big data insights

TechCrunch

Farming sustainably and efficiently has gone from a big tractor problem to a big data problem over the last few decades, and startup EarthOptics believes the next frontier of precision agriculture lies deep in the soil. The $10.3M

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As extreme weather events worsen, 7Analytics meshes AI and big data to predict flooding

TechCrunch

Yesterday, TechCrunch wrote about a six-year-old company called VRAI , which initially delivered VR simulation training to the aerospace and defence sectors, but is now expanding into renewable energy, where it will focus on helping to upskill the European workforce and support plans to increase offshore wind energy capacity in the coming decade.

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How Big Data Drives The Sharing Economy

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The advent of "Big Data" has resulted in an internet landscape where every major company tracks their users' information. When a website warns you that it wants to use cookies to track your information, that's a clear sign of big data at work. Without big data, it is much more difficult to make this sharing economy work.

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