by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Jobs and Salaries
A World Economic Forum report says that while the data science field will be the biggest gainer in new jobs, the lower strata of data sector jobs will get hammered by job losses. Donal Power filed this report in RT Insights: The report determined that changes in the...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 18, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights
Big data has the answers. Lots of good ones, and lots of bad ones, too. Sometimes separating the wheat from the chaff requires disciplines from outside the realm of data science. Bill Luker writes in the Predictive Analytics Times: Big data is and has been less easy...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 18, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, People
Fei-Fei Li, one of the most respected names in cloud-based AI (artificial intelligence) is leaving Google after less than two years at the company. She will be replaced by Andrew Moore, currently dean of the school of computer science at Carnegie Mellon. Li is set to...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 17, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights
A movement called Open Science has been stirring debate in the scientific community about whether raw scientific data should be made available to everyone who wants to use it. Better data makes for better science. But the issue isn’t so simple. Data has monetary...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 12, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Jobs and Salaries
The money is great and the job is sexy but many data scientists are unhappy at the jobs and are heading out the door. Many tech companies are failing their employees, according to Kaggle CEO Anthony Goldbloom. Here is a report from the Financial Times: “According to...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights
ING Chief Data Officer Christopher Bannocks believes that “every data problem is a people problem in disguise.” He adds that companies that focus only on technology and ignore people are making a very big mistake. Peter James Thomas interviewed Bannocks on...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, People
Predictive analytics firm IRI has a new executive vice president of Data and Innovation. Harvey Goldhersz, formerly CEO of GroupM Analytics, is now tasked with improving connections with IRI’s partners by using cutting edge developments in data and artificial...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, People
Less than a year after he joined Cerberus Capital Management, former J.P. Morgan data science chief Afsheen Afshar has made an unexpected exit from the private equity firm. Cerberus has already hired another J.P. Morgan alumnus, Benjamin Sylvester III, to take over...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, People
Cigna has chosen Gina Papush to lead the firm’s enterprise data and analytics team as its Global Chief Data and Analytics Officer. BusinessWire reports: “Papush comes to Cigna with more than 22 years of experience in analytics strategy development and the use of data...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights, People
Networking site LinkedIn will allow academics to access its data for their studies but assures users that proper privacy protections will remain in place. The move is an expansion of previous collaborative effort that produced “path-breaking findings,” the...
