Big Data: Still Early Days?

David Dietrich, who presented about Building Data Science Teams at EMC World 2013 in Las Vegas, has written a new InFocus blog post reflecting on the status of Big Data and where the field is going:

While delivering EMC’s Data Science & Big Data Analytics course to people who want to become practitioners of Data Science, we realized there is a gap in the industry. There are now people who have responsibility for building and leading Data Science teams, but may not know how to get started. To help answer this question I delivered an EMC World session entitled “Building Data Science Teams.” I’ll share more about the material I covered in my presentation in a future InFocus post, but for now I thought I would share a few observations about the session in general. Nearly 100 people attended my session, and the attendees seemed quite interested in the material, with the attendees ranking the presentation very highly in the post-session evaluations. As is often the case, people seemed bashful about asking questions during the session, but after we turned off the microphones, 10-15 people approached me with questions, many of whom then followed up with me during the remainder of EMC World with subsequent questions.

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