Also like Big Data, the Data Scientist role is required right now in some businesses and not so immediately in others.
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Like Big Data, the term Data Scientist is both catching on and generating skepticism.
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Ron O'Dor, a Canadian scientist who has played a big role in the marine census, insists that new finds will increase the case for conservation.
The speed of the change is the big worry, said Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann.
Duke University, political scientist, David Rohde says this has big implications for the general election.
"We have never explored such a place beyond our own Earth, and the technology required is not too different from the successful US-European Cassini-Huygens mission, so it's a natural for the next big international collaboration in space, " commented the scientist, who worked on the 1990s Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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"It's a big deal, " said Charles Lawrence, Planck project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a news briefing.
According to David Fleischer, a political scientist at the University of Brasilia, the big winner in the new team (apart from Mr Malan) is Clovis Carvalho, the president's chief of staff.
"It's like a big jigsaw puzzle, " says Ted Gifford, an operations research scientist at Schneider.
Andrew Cheng, project scientist for the Eros probe NEAR-Shoemaker, said the big question facing commercial space ventures remains what it will cost to get their equipment off Earth.
Rembrandt, run by computer scientist Paul Schneck, was set up to purchase patents and sue big corporations.
As the political scientist Stanley Kelley once explained, when modern advertising began, the big clients were just as interested in advancing a political agenda as a commercial one.
As part of this mission, I had a fascinating conversation recently with Mok Oh, Chief Scientist at PayPal, about the nature of the current state of big data infrastructure and applications.
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