by CDO Review Staff | Nov 19, 2018 | Jobs and Salaries
Big banks and tech firms are fighting each other in the effort to hire more data scientists. The result is higher average pay for data scientists, even for those fresh out of graduate school. The average Facebook data scientist brings home close to $200,000 annually...
by CDO Review Staff | Nov 19, 2018 | Tools
When it comes to computational notebooks, Jupyter has become a dominant open-source web tool. Key to Jupyter’s rapid growth is its ability to converse in dozens of computer languages, among them Julia (Ju), Python (Py), and R, which form the basis for its name. A...
by CDO Review Staff | Nov 19, 2018 | Jobs and Salaries
William Vorhies asks if data scientists will still be useful in 2025 in this report from Data Science Central: … one driver remains the structural shortage of well trained and affordable data scientists. Hiring is still a problem so trying to do more with fewer DS...
by CDO Review Staff | Nov 19, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
Even in this era of predictive analytics and AI-driven machine learning, a global business intelligence survey has found that 58% of respondents still base their decisions on gut feel. These respondents have the results of their expensive automated intelligence...
by CDO Review Staff | Nov 19, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
As data and applications move to the cloud, the conventional wisdom is that data warehousing is dead. Yet this may not be true. Data warehouses are changing with the times and are reaching for common ground with the cloud. Researcher Dave Stodder reports on how...
by CDO Review Staff | Nov 19, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
A searchable master index is crucial to any data management solution but there are several approaches to implementation. These include static and dynamic indexing. David Loshin on Knowledge Integrity Inc. explains why you need both indexing types in this report in...
by CDO Review Staff | Nov 19, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights
Melanie Mitchell, professor of Computer Science at Portland State University, isn’t worried that AI (artificial intelligence) systems have become too smart. Instead, Mitchell worries that AI systems remain so stupid even as people abdicate decision-making to them....
by CDO Review Staff | Nov 9, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
Now that the use of predictive analytics is going mainstream, firms on the leading edge of technology are exploring prescriptive analytics, which automates the insight-generation process and promises quicker results through the elimination of human bias. David Judge,...
by CDO Review Staff | Nov 9, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
Predictive analytics and machine learning are not interchangeable terms as many seem to believe. In practical terms, both processes have important roles to play in the delivery of accurate and actionable insights from your available data. David Roe differentiates...
by CDO Review Staff | Nov 9, 2018 | Tools
The recent merger of Hadoop-oriented arch-rivals Cloudera and Hortonworks into a $5.2 billion tech giant have brought the critics out of the woodwork. Of these, Bloomberg columnist Shira Ovide was most emphatic in calling the marriage of the two unprofitable companies...
