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Jobs for Data Scientists Explode Across The Market

By ⋅ 21/07/2011 ⋅ Post a comment

In what’s likely just the beginning of a long-term story, job listings indexed by employment search engine Indeed.com indicate that market demand for data scientists and people capable of working with “big data” took a huge leap over the last year. David Smith of Revolution Analytics performed several related queries and posted the results today [...]

“Madness of Crowds” or “Wisdom of Groups”? – Improvisations – MIT Sloan Management Review

By ⋅ 05/01/2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Co-authored by MIT’s Thomas W. Malone, Alexander Pentland, and Nada Hashmi, along with Anita Williams Woolley of Carnegie-Mellon and Christopher F. Chabris of Union College, the Science story details two studies about how groups perform. The researchers concluded that “group intelligence” correlates less with the intelligence of the individuals and more with the social sensitivity [...]

5 Predictions for Online Data In 2011

By ⋅ 22/12/2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Summary In the midst of all the data-driven innovation we are seeing, this will be also the year of separating the non-trivial from the trivial. It’s one thing to acquire terabytes of data, and it’s quite another to cleanse, disambiguate and mobilize that data in service of real-time insights into markets young and old. The [...]

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