Last October an article in the Harvard Business Review appeared with the headline, “Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century.” Last week Claire Cain Miller, a technology reporter for The New York Times, used the head to introduce her own story on the fast growing field of data science and the efforts on […]
As Demand Keeps On Increasing, Hadoop And NoSQL Skills Pay Off
April 11, 2013 by 3 Comments
In this special guest feature, Matt Asay from 10gen writes that the move to Big Data means plenty of IT jobs for people with the right skills. The rise of Big Data has pushed companies to desperately start seeking IT professionals that can help in their database efforts. Though the Big Data market is still […]
Job of the Week: Big Data Engineer at Living Social
March 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Living Social is seeking a Big Data Engineer in our Job of the Week. At LivingSocial, we move fast, take risks, and pride ourselves on staying flexible, fun, and ferociously committed to executing each day. Do you want to be challenged by your job and be surrounded by passionate, dedicated, and creative people? Are you […]
Will Big Data Cost You Your Job?
March 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Has this sentence you’re reading right now been written by a human being or a robot? Don’t feel badly if you haven’t got the answer to this Big Data Turing test. The combination of recent advances in robotics with the rapid development of Big Data analytics has the potential to permanently change the working landscape, […]
Job of the Week: Senior Systems Engineer at Scalable Informatics
January 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Scalable Informatics is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer in our Job of the Week. We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to be an individual contributor responsible for consultative pre-sales and post-sales support activities for customers. The pre-sales role will include both customer-facing, and customer-remote operations, including but not limited to overall architecture, planning […]
IBM to Open Big Data Analytics Center in Ohio
December 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Over at Datacenter Knowledge, Colleen Miller writes that a new IBM analytics center in Columbus, Ohio will focus on advancing research, development, client services, and training in the areas of analytics, big data, and cognitive computing. Data is a powerful natural resource that if used wisely can drive U.S. economic competitiveness and lead to rewarding […]
Video: Why Data Scientists are in Demand
November 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In this video, IBM big data evangelist James Kobielus explains what a data scientist does, the skill set that it requires, how they collaborate with subject matter experts to deliver important insights, and why the role is so important to the future of IT and big data. Read the Full Story.
Big Data to Create 4.4 Million Jobs by 2015
November 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Gartner, Inc. is projecting that Big Data will help boost Worldwide IT spending in 2013. By 2015, 4.4 million IT jobs globally will be created to support Big Data, generating 1.9 million IT jobs in the United States,” said Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president at Gartner and global head of Research. “In addition, every big […]
Job of the Week: Big Data Engineer at Advanti Solutions
March 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Advanti Solutions is seeking a Big Data Engineer in our Job of the Week. With your strong knowledge of computer science and a deep conceptual understanding of data, youll help Advanti to tackle security identifier issues – one of the most prevalent problems in the equities and fixed income markets. The users of our systems […]
Big Data Career Opportunities Abound
March 6, 2012 by 1 Comment
Clipped from: inside-bigdata.jobamatic.com (share this clip) How hot is the Big Data job market? Carolyn Duffy Marsan from Network World writes that Data Scientists are all the rage. Unheard of 18 months ago, “data scientist” has exploded in popularity as a Google search term. The number of Google searches of “data scientist” hit peaks 20 […]
