Articles associated with topic: big data career
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How Data Analytics Make Airlines Fly
Look up at the sky and think in numbers: Each day, nearly 7,000 commercial aircraft take off on 24,000 flights, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. With the expert guidance of 14,000 air traffic c… -
Check Out the Highest-Paying Data Skills
According to Dice’s latest Salary Survey (PDF), those tech professionals who specialize in data warehousing and analytics can expect to pull down high salaries. While that isn’t exactly a shocking conclusion (s… -
Key Skills That Data Scientists Need
Data scientists have a deceptively straightforward job to do: make sense of the torrent of data that enters an organization as unstructured hash. Somewhere in that confusion (hopefully) lies vital insight. But… -
Google Acquires Kaggle, Data-Scientist Hub
Google is acquiring Kaggle, which hosts competitions for data scientists. That report comes from TechCrunch, which was the first tech publication to report that Google was exploring such an acquisition. Terms o… -
SponsoredWalmart Global Tech: You Belong
People-led, tech-powered. That’s what Walmart Global Tech delivers every day, while helping people save money and live better. And that’s not just for customers. Living better is also a goal the company has for… -
Can a 'Robot Tax' Solve Automation's Job-Killing?
For years, pundits have argued that increased automation will eventually eliminate millions of human jobs. How should society deal with the resulting disruption? Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has an idea: tax… -
Lisp: A.I.'s Newest (Old) Language
This article excerpt is from eFinancialCareers. Armando Gonzalez has got a problem. The CEO of Ravenpack, a company which uses artificial intelligence to turn news and social media into usable indicators for fi… -
Tech’s Winning (and Losing) Jobs: Cybersecurity, DevOps, and More
Current trends will continue to influence the job market for technology professionals into the next year and beyond. Tech unemployment recently hit 1.3 percent, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor S… -
Milk May Speed Up Big Data Management
Everybody wants faster code. But squeezing out just a bit more speed is often an exercise in frustration, especially when dealing with older programming languages. In the quest for additional speediness, some o… -
Edward Tufte on Data Visualizations and Art
Statistician and data-visualization pioneer Edward Tufte is a legend for his ability to take the most complicated datasets and transform them into a visual language that even casual viewers can understand. A Pr… -
The Big Data Behind Big Drug Development
New drugs (the legal kind) undergo years of safety and effectiveness testing—which is why, according to the Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO), the average drug or medical device takes 15 yea… -
SponsoredCelebrating a Legacy of Innovation at The Walt Disney Company
This year, The Walt Disney Company is celebrating 100 years of storytelling, dreams and innovation. As we approach our centennial celebration, we caught up with three technologists to learn more about how techn…