The big data revolution is doing more than just introducing new levels of effectiveness – it’s also spurring a new breed of workers. The data scientist is heavily relying on the cloud, accessing the information and the tools with the right processing power to do the job. This audience has apparently caught the eyes of two companies today – Jitterbit and EMC.
Jitterbit announced the latest version of its flagship offering today, an integrator of enterprise applications and cloud resources targeting IT and business analysts. Version 4 comes with a simplified cloud and on-premise applications integrating wizards, enhanced collaboration and productivity features as well as support for Multilanguage big data.
“Jitterbit features new levels of performance power to scale for complex, high volume integration while simplifying testing of large data sets. Unicode support allows Jitterbit to connect any data from any language or country.”
The concept of data science has been around for decades, but all the buzz around this area only started a few years ago when companies have begun to monetize this field’s huge potential in the past few years. And, according to this Wikibon infographic, it’s divided into 4 parts: mining data, statistics, interpreting, and leveraging. The role of the data scientist in connection to these parts is scouring and organization that data, and then the extraction the information that data contains via a number of analytical methods.
Google chief economist Hal Varian was quoted to say that “the sexiest job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and EMC seems to agree. News crossed the wire today that the storage giant will host the first Data Scientist Summit on May 11-12 at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. The topics will include the impact of big data on various markets, its benefit, what it takes to be a data scientist and real-world case studies.
EMC had other developments today too. The company unveiled version 6.0 of its Avamar duplication backup software, which now has its own Data Store.
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