Tag: skills gap
Fiverr Adds Data Science Recruiting Category
The latest attempt to address the data science skills gaps comes from Fiverr International, a recruiter of freelance technical talent, which unveiled a new vertical segment this week dedicated to data-related skills and Read more…
New Open Source App: Data Science Education
The principles underpinning open source software development that are transforming the digital economy are now being extended to new sectors such as education, where proponents hope to leverage the collaborative approach Read more…
Multi-Cloud Complexity Heightens Security Threats
The need to move data closer to users while gaining access to machine learning and other emerging technologies has prompted a broad shift by enterprises to multiple public clouds. But a new study finds that few early mul Read more…
Hyperscale Datacenters Lift Many Boats
Soaring demand for hyperscale datacenters and colocation services is having a ripple effect within the value chain that builds and integrates those services, a new survey finds. As edge deployments and software-define Read more…
Standards Effort Seeks to Redefine ‘Data Scientist’
"Da-ta Sci-en-tist, noun, a person employed to analyze and interpret complex digital data, such as the usage statistics of a website, especially in order to assist a business in its decision-making." That's one genera Read more…
Q&A with a DataCamp Counselor
One of the great things about data science is there are multiple pathways into the field. Some may segue into the profession from "hard sciences" like physics, while others receive Ph.Ds in the discipline after years of Read more…
Data Science Skills Gap May Be Narrowing
Big data "hype" has attracted more new data scientists, thereby driving down salaries for new entrants for the first time in four years, according to a salary survey. The annual survey released by the executive recrui Read more…
Wanted (Badly): Big Data Engineers
Big data engineers head a list of top IT jobs in 2017, second only in terms of salary range to Internet of Things architects and among the leaders with respect to available job openings over the last 12 months. Accord Read more…
Jobs, Data Skills and Labor Day
The Bureau of Labor Statistics' middling monthly employment report in advance of the U.S. Labor Day observance again reflects the impact of technology and globalization on the American workforce and the resulting demand Read more…
KPMG to Fund Data-Focused Auditing Courses
The drive to close the data science skills gap continues to gain momentum, the latest effort bringing together corporate sponsor KPMG and two leading U.S. universities to create a new graduate degree program in data scie Read more…
NASA Helps Launch Data Science Grad Program
Another U.S. university is adding a data science specialization to its curriculum, this one as part of an online Masters of Science degree in engineering. The University of California at Riverside said the data science t Read more…
Skills Gap Also Includes ‘Failure to Communicate’
The data science skills gap continues to widen, with emerging automation tools like machine learning only just now starting to take up some of the slack. PayScale, the online salary database, released a report Tuesday (M Read more…
DataRobot Looks to Cut Data Science Backlog
The data science automation specialist DataRobot Inc. is gaining traction in the big data market for its machine-learning application as new investors like Intel Capital fund its expanding operations. Boston-based Dat Read more…
Report: Plans Lacking to Fill Data Skills Gap
The soaring demand for data scientists and the resulting pressure on the analytics labor pool is placing a premium on analytics talent as more companies with more data to sift through discover they are trying to hire the Read more…